Legal and IP transaction advisory

For asset owners, companies, investors and counterparties reviewing or structuring licences, assignments, R&D collaboration and IP exploitation.

• Companies
• Investors
• Creators

Clarify rights and risks in a transaction. Clients can identify rights, risks and negotiation points before signing or implementing the transaction.

• A rights, parties, restrictions and material-issues map.
• A proposed transaction and allocation-of-obligations structure.
• A drafting/review scope and negotiation-issues list.

Review requires the chain of creation and transfer, not only the final transaction draft.

• Rights, applications, agreements and ownership evidence.
• Transaction drafts, term sheets and party correspondence.
• Commercial goal, territories, products and intended use.

1. Define the assets, parties and transaction objective.
2. Review chain of title, restrictions and risks.
3. Recommend structure, terms and negotiation points.
4. Draft/review and support negotiations within the agreed scope.

Unclear ownership, ambiguous licence scope or unallocated confidentiality and technology-completion duties can create disputes.

IP GROUP approaches transactions through the relationship between rights, technology and exploitation, coordinating appropriate specialists where needed.