We work with clients to negotiate, document, review and manage arrangements relating to intellectual property. Examples of the types of deals we assist clients with include:
Insights about Commercial IP, deals and contracts
A new technology hits a point where the question stops being whether it works and becomes who already owns the ground around it. Quantum computing has recently crossed that line. McKinsey’s 2026 Quantum Technology Monitor reports over 300 companies — Airbus, JPMorgan Chase, Boehringer Ingelheim…
When investors describe a winning company, they now reach for three ideas: credible AI adoption, resilience, and durable competitive advantage. McKinsey’s latest survey of long-term investors — What matters most to investors in 2026 and what it means for companies — makes the shift plain.…
July was a month about ownership. Not compliance, not litigation skill – ownership. Google’s edge sits on TPU technology that competitors must come back and license. Sanofi lost the mRNA product race and is now taxing the winners through delivery patents it happens to hold.…
When Berkshire Hathaway takes a $10 billion stake in Alphabet, the headline is the money. The real story is what Google chose not to monetise on its own. Google’s most valuable asset isn’t its ad engine or its cash pile—it’s the TPU, a proprietary chip…
The most valuable intellectual property in your business is often not the product your customers see — it’s the platform underneath it: the data it learned from, the delivery technology it rides on, the foundational patents everything else is built over. Several developments this past…
Ben Thompson’s recent Stratechery analysis is a masterclass in how scale, integration and narrative compound into something competitors can no longer touch. Starlink is profitable not because the satellites are clever, but because SpaceX owns the launch capacity that puts them there. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving…
