Mayer Brown’s Intellectual Property Transactions lawyers help companies accomplish their business goals through strategic business combinations and alliances. Our transactional experience includes mergers and acquisitions designed to assist clients in capitalizing on a companies’ IP strengths, as well as securitizations, licensing agreements and joint ventures that both exploit and leverage a company’s intellectual property rights.
Using the resources of one of the world’s leading structured finance practices, Mayer Brown was in the forefront of the securitization of IP assets with representing the underwriters of future royalty streams from music portfolios and continues to structure offerings involving numerous copyrighted works and trademark rights. We see opportunities other firms don’t – and help our clients take advantage of them.
Whether the transaction is a licensing arrangement, merger, joint venture or some other arrangement, we advise on the regulatory and antitrust implications as well as the IP issues. Our firm is unsurpassed at helping clients navigate the increasingly congested intersection between intellectual property and antitrust, both in the US and Europe. One of our lawyers was involved in drafting the 1995 DOJ and FTC Guidelines on the Licensing of Intellectual Property, which also influenced EU antitrust policies. We provide companies with effective insight on structuring intellectual property rights pools and distribution agreements (including field of use, geographic, and price restraints) in ways to avoid problems with competition laws.
Practice at a Glance
