Intellectual Property Due Diligence in M&A: Verifying Ownership and Transferability of Assets, Mitigating Risks

Ms. Darvall’s practice focuses on advising clients on a wide variety of commercial transactions involving intellectual property, including technology, software, trademark, patent, and copyright licensing and analysis, protection of trade secrets and rights of publicity, as well as privacy and other issues related to doing business on the internet, technology transfer and development agreements, and e-commerce agreements. In addition, her experience includes evaluating and advising on IP and technology issues that arise in general corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and debt financing transactions. Ms. Darvall has advised U.S. and foreign companies on intellectual property protection and ownership issues in the context of collaborations and joint-ventures. She has particular interest in software transactions and open source issues, privacy and data security, and intellectual property protection issues, the latter arising from her background in media and entertainment.

Mr. Ventling advises clients on the intellectual property and technology aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, private equity, and venture capital investments. He also advises clients on operational issues relating to inbound and open source software licensing, information security and data privacy.