Technology lawyering.
Operationalized.
strategic ▴ legal ▴ services
Proven experience.
Our services are the culmination of many years of hands-on legal experience representing the largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies in multiple tech industries, both in-house and as outside counsel. We’ve worked small transactions, megadeals, and everything in between, all over the world. Our collective experience spans line operating roles and senior leadership posts, including General Counsel, Chief Financial Officer, and partner at an AmLaw 100 global law firm.
Depth of focus.
We know strategy, operations, and tactics, and how to maneuver in all three of those dimensions to generate forward movement. In addition to being adept at the nuts-and-bolts of commercial legal practice, we are fluent in the language of complex technology and understand the physics of business. We operate at all altitudes, from the strategic heights to the tactical weeds, and are seasoned at developing concrete operating details that give effect to strategic concepts.
Systematic insights.
Complex problems must be attacked quickly and thoughtfully. We employ structured methodologies to generate the decision-ready legal options necessary to compete in novel business environments. We don’t make a science project out of it; rather, we do what’s needed to leverage our extensive past knowledge base in an organized way, to produce work product that is faster, smarter, and more actionable for your business.
Turnkey interface.
Adding more engineers to a late project can make it later, and we know that a similar thing is true for legal operations. We have a small, versatile, agile footprint that seamlessly interfaces with other capabilities in even the most complicated projects, including with in-house staff, outside counsel in various countries, or a combination of both. We’ve worked with a lot of lawyers in many different roles, and can manage as much (or as little) of the process as you like.
We provide legal services that enable business operations in a rapidly changing world.
Technology Transactions
We handle the full spectrum of IP and commercial deals that are critical to your business operations, including licenses and sensitive technology-sharing arrangements, development and engineering agreements, manufacturing agreements, and customer contracts. From basic supply-chain contracts to elaborate multi-party strategic collaborations, we drive deals from whiteboard to signature.
We see in the three dimensions of business. And while we are capable and efficient on deals of any size and complexity, we are especially well-equipped to handle complex situations with a lot of moving parts but not a lot of business precedent. These commonly include business pivots, post-merger integration of commercial operations, and the launch of novel technologies or business models. Contact us if you have tech transactions needs; we’d love to help.
Advanced Research Projects
We invest substantial ongoing effort into looking over the horizon at tomorrow’s challenges, with the aim of making preparations ahead of their arrival in force. Our long operating experience gives us a uniquely legal perspective on strategic forecasting, short-term vs. long-term priorities, and the balance between “thinking” and “doing.”
Although we collaborate with academics and other interested parties in and out of government, we are practitioners and our mission is fundamentally practical. Our mandate is to explore and develop innovative legal, risk, and decision tools that can be rapidly deployed by the private sector, initially on a small scale, to address big problems before they become unmanageable. If your enterprise is facing a challenge where you think we could be helpful, we’d love to have a conversation.
