Agreements: Negotiating in your best interest
Agreements are an integral part of doing business. As a firm that focuses on leveraging intellectual property rights, Valadares Law Group has the experience to draft, interpret, and negotiate sophisticated and intricate IP agreements, ranging from material transfer to collaborative research to patent and trademark royalty bearing licenses. We consider the big picture, the small details, and the realities that go with making the deal work.
Our lawyers have assisted corporations and educational institutions on a range of transactional matters. We have also worked with small and midsized companies, providing IP transaction counseling to business managers who, in a larger corporation would look to experienced in-house counsel for assistance. From straightforward confidentiality clauses in employment contracts to in-depth multi-party collaborative research agreements, our lawyers understand that IP agreements need to support your company's present business objectives, while also contemplating future considerations such as business expansion or changes in market demands.
In addition to negotiating, drafting and enforcing license agreements, we have experience in all aspects of IP transaction work, including:
- Negotiating and forming strategic alliances
- Drafting distribution agreements
- Drafting joint research (collaborative) agreements
- Performing due diligence on the IP requirements of mergers and acquisitions
- Advising on IP transactional structures
- Technology transfer agreements
Specifically, on behalf of our clients we have:
- Assisted a biopharma company with a large number of licensing in/out agreements by creating internal tracking and monitoring program to ensure milestones, royalty payments and other conditions are timely met and documented
- Successfully prevented a world-renown research institute's attempts to evergreen its patent license with a mid-size Canadian biopharma company
- Drafted and negotiated bundled trademark and confidential information licenses
- Successfully negotiated around a restrictive manufacturing and distribution agreement to allow a medical device company the freedom to engage another manufacturer
Let Valadares Law Group's sophisticated team of agreement specialists ensure that your company's best interests are protected in all intellectual property related agreements.