The full lifecycle of turning intellectual property into money: entity and equity structuring, founders', investor, employment, and IP-assignment agreements, licensing, technology transfers, acquisitions and divestitures, and the due diligence behind all of it. If an agreement touches the ownership, transfer, or monetization of a patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secret, it's ours. We structure the deal, paper it, and close it.

Before. The most expensive problems in a transaction are the ones baked in years earlier: IP sitting in the wrong entity, an unassigned contractor invention, a chain-of-title gap nobody papered. Structure early and you negotiate from a clean, defensible position. Wait, and you negotiate from repair. Structure early, document relentlessly, and negotiate from strength.

Yes. That is a core part of who we serve. We act as US counsel for foreign companies, and as US co-counsel for foreign law firms whose clients need American IP and deal expertise. You keep the relationship; we bring the US-side work. The firm is remote and international by design, so working across time zones and borders is the default, not the exception.

We quarterback the deal from a single point of accountability and pull in vetted local counsel only where a jurisdiction genuinely requires it, such as for a foreign-office assignment recording, a local-law enforceability question, or a country-specific tax or regulatory issue. You get one strategy and one team executing it, not a stack of uncoordinated foreign invoices. Our AI-powered diligence tools inventory and verify IP assets across jurisdictions and formats so nothing slips between offices.

They quietly decide how much of your revenue survives the trip home. US-source royalties paid to a foreign person are generally subject to default withholdings, affected by applicable income tax treaties, and/or relative to your domicile. In view of these issues, we help you structure entity, equity, and IP-holding arrangements in coordination with local counsel and/or your tax advisors as needed.

The words on the page are only as good as the governing-law, jurisdiction, and dispute-resolution clauses behind them. We draft those deliberately, often favoring arbitration under recognized international frameworks for cross-border enforceability, confirming jurisdictional enforceability with local counsel when needed.

It means we use AI across strategy, drafting, redlining, and diligence, because a well-negotiated agreement isn't threatened by the AI-authorship and inventorship questions that constrain our patent and copyright work. On confidentiality: routine agreements are drafted by feeding vetted templates and your facts to a private LLM, then reviewed line by line before anything reaches you to ensure your information stays in a controlled environment, managed by humans.

We benchmark royalty rates, exclusivity terms, and deal values against comparable transactions and licensing data, then pressure-test them against your leverage and the counterparty's alternatives. Our goal is the best number you can defend and close. For acquisitions and financings, we help build valuations that buyers, lenders, and strategic partners will actually underwrite, based on our professional and personal understandings of market value.

They are two halves of one coin. Transactions build value with counterparties who want to deal; when one refuses, our Litigation practice builds the evidentiary case file that turns a reluctant infringer into a willing licenses, then hands the negotiation back for paper and close.

Either. For many clients we're the dedicated IP-transactions specialists working alongside existing corporate counsel on the IP-heavy portions of a deal, such as the license, the assignment, the IP reps and warranties, the diligence. For others we run the entire transaction.

Most ownership disputes trace back to a missing signature: a contractor who never assigned, a co-founder who left with rights, an employee invention that was never captured. We map and paper the assignment chain, including founders', employment, contractor, and IP-assignment agreements, so ownership sits in the right entity, provably, before anyone ever asks.