Strategic Partnering

Our Silicon Valley law firm has been handling startup business matters in Silicon Valley since 1984 and has represented a broad range of quality high technology startup companies in almost every conceivable area involving startup business and intellectual property law.

In the start-up context, teaming – strategic alliances or partnering – is the fluid aligning of high tech companies to meet common goals. We can help with all aspects of such alliances.

We bring a practical focus to our work on teaming deals. Such deals tend to be driven primarily by business objectives and are thus inherently evolving. We are skilled at advising on and preparing documents that provide a strong yet flexible legal framework for cooperation between independent parties seeking to achieve common goals.

Many teaming deals incorporate corporate and intellectual property elements with which we have substantial experience:

• corporate investment
• joint venturing
• research and development agreements
• evaluation and beta agreements
• licensing of all types
• development agreements
• supply and distribution agreements
• technology transfers

We are skilled in all of these areas, and we are skilled at negotiating complex arrangements combining fluid elements with legally enforceable ones.