Bob is co-chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Practice and a member of the Corporate and Securities Practice. His practice focuses on intellectual property and technology transactions, and the representation of both buyers and providers of goods and services in transactions involving the development, implementation and commercialization of technology and intellectual property rights. Bob also has extensive experience representing both early-stage and public company clients in connection with IP matters arising in angel and venture capital financings, mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions.
Representative Experience:
- Representation of private equity and corporate clients with regard to intellectual property and technology matters in mergers, acquisitions, investments, and joint ventures
- Counsel to public and private healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, automotive and financial companies involved in buying and selling information technology goods and services, including software licensing, system implementations, systems integrations, ASP/SaaS/cloud agreements, hosting and data center agreements, telecommunications and network management agreements, and hardware acquisition and maintenance agreements
- Counsel to public and private companies in domestic and international technology and outsourcing initiatives (including drafting RFPs and managing the RFP process); down-selection; developing, drafting and negotiating contracts; setting service levels and performance criteria; drafting project management and governance terms; and assisting in the transition process
- Representation of clients in hardware and software procurement in various industries, including automotive, healthcare, food and beverage, life sciences, manufacturing, financial services, hospitality, entertainment and logistics
- Representation regarding trademark and branding issues, including the selection, clearance, prosecution, and management of trademark portfolios; opinions on availability of marks; preparing and prosecuting trademark applications; maintaining and enforcing trademark rights; advertising issues, sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions and resolution/arbitration of domain name disputes
- Counsel to clients that have experienced significant security breaches involving sensitive business information or customers' personal information and compliance with state security breach notification laws
- Counsel to clients in restructuring and re-negotiating a variety of transactions including outsourcing, in-sourcing, managing acquisitions and divestitures in outsourcing, and terminating outsourcing arrangements
- Extensive experience with academic/university agreements , strategic alliances and collaborations, supply and distribution agreements, reseller agreements, development agreements, and hosting agreements
Representative Matters:
- Representation of a hospital management company for the acquisition and installation of management software packages at more than 200 hospitals with an estimated value of more than $600 million
- Representation of a group purchasing organization in a strategic relationship with a medical manufacturing company and establishment of a Chinese representative office to procure all types of medical and consumer products from China to save member organizations millions of dollars each year
- Representation of a healthcare company to be an outsourced provider of health and wellness functions with an estimated value in excess of $500 million
- Representation of a healthcare technology company in business process and information technology outsourcing to a Tier 1 provider with services in excess of $400 million
- Counsel to a healthcare company and all of its hospitals in a data center services agreement with a contract value of $75 million
- Counsel to information technology company in the licensing of certain intellectual property and outsourcing of its information technology services to a leading domestic services provider with a contract value in excess of $50 million
- Counsel to a healthcare company in the negotiation and preparation of multiple agreements with three major Indian offshore providers for application development and data management
- Counsel to one of the largest U.S. electronic cooperatives in its SAP ERP and CIS implementation, the first mid-market utility implementation in the U.S. that now serves as a template for all Deloitte/SAP utility implementations in North America
- Counsel to a global agricultural technology and life sciences company in its supply and distribution agreements with third party manufacturers and distributors
- Counsel to strategic venture involving university and third-party sponsored biotechnology research agreements
- Counsel to a major automaker in renegotiating and restructuring its licensing agreements with a large international software vendor in a troubled relationship
- Ongoing representation of numerous software developers and start-up companies in their efforts to develop and commercialize mobile, financial, commercial real estate, healthcare and other software applications
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