Intellectual Property Our lawyers have hands-on practice experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, and Internet law. Our clients consistently look to us for help in acquiring, protecting, exploiting, and defending their ideas and technology, as well as aggressively enforcing their intellectual property rights.
Partnership and Joint Ventures Partnerships, joint ventures and other forms of joint ownership are used widely by both public and private investors. We have considerable expertise in the formation, operation and liquidation of these arrangements.
Governance and Compliance Our attorneys have substantial experience in advising corporations in this expanding area, as we counsel boards, special board committees and senior executives with regard to management succession, relationships with major investors (particularly institutional investors), compensation practices for directors and officers, conflict of interest matters and change-of-control matters.
Small and Medium-Sized Companies Small and medium-sized companies face the same complex legal issues that confront the world's largest corporations. We offer those companies regularly counsel these companies on a wide variety of issues such as executive compensation packages to retain and motivate key employees, tax liabilities, environmental issues, acquisition of other companies, going public or effecting secondary public offerings, etc.