Due-diligence

Our team of market leading attorneys, integrated with specialist IP lawyers, add commercial value by placing data into a meaningful context for your business. We achieve this by specifically tailoring the strategy for each due diligence project to the needs of your business.

Our team can help you to:

  • Identify what IP assets are owned or licensed by a target company
  • Confirm that chains of title (ownership) have been derived correctly
  • Confirm the current status of each IP asset
  • Assess contracts or licenses involving IP assets to which the target company is a party

More importantly, we can bring all this information together, and provide pragmatic advice about the quality of the assets within the IP portfolio of the target company.

We can also help you perform a due diligence of your own IP portfolio, to ensure that your IP processes and practices are in a healthy state, either for your own purposes or those of a prospective purchaser.

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Our team: Due-diligence

Nicole Ockl

Nicole Ockl

Partner, Head of Legal, Trademarks and Designs (Germany) | Litigation

Daniel Chew

Daniel Chew

Partner, President of The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys | Tech

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Commercial agreements

Do you know what your IP is doing to bring in revenue? Can you show your business how you are using your IP to gain competitive advantage? Can you secure the best deal possible?

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Due-diligence

Due diligence can too often be seen as a box ticking exercise that lists the various IP assets of the target company. Not here.

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Licensing

As an owner of IP, you will sometimes need others to help your IP fulfil its commercial potential and support the strategic goals of the business. Make sure they value your IP as much as you do.

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Assignments

Ensuring that IP and associated rights are owned by the right entity is a vital part of corporate asset management, which can impact the ability of your business to leverage the value of those rights.

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R&D agreements

Collaborations, joint development, cross licensing and complex IP ownership structures require our specialist expertise.

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