Intellectual Property Transactions
Turn intellectual capital into market power
Maximise the value of your intangible assets with IP transactions lawyers who bring depth, discipline, and business insight to every deal.
The assets fuelling today's global economy are often the hardest to see. Brands, technology, data, research, software, and know-how increasingly drive the decisions behind growth, investment, and major transactions. As these assets rise in value, so do the stakes attached to their acquisition, commercialisation, licensing, and strategic management.
Recognised as one of the world’s leading full-service intellectual property law firms, we bring the transactional expertise, sector knowledge, and international platform to support complex IP-driven deals across global markets. From multibillion-dollar life sciences collaborations to cross-border technology transfers and high-profile brand acquisitions, we combine deep IP capability with a uniquely integrated business law offering to shape deals that not only protect value, but extend it.
From asset to opportunity
For ambitious organisations, owning IP is only the starting point. How those assets are structured, deployed, and commercialised can determine leverage, scale, and long-term advantage. We help clients make those decisions with the full transaction in view, aligning IP strategy with commercial objectives across sectors, markets, and business models.
Here's what sets us apart:
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Trusted on defining mandates: From landmark pharmaceutical transactions and IP-rich joint ventures to notable celebrity collaborations, our experience signals the trust our clients place in us in connection with some of the most intricate and highest-value IP-driven transactions in recent history.
Advice that sees the whole board: We help clients connect ownership, licensing, tax, transfer pricing, competition, corporate, regulatory, data, and governance considerations into one strategy. The result is integrated advice that links legal rights to deal economics, operating realities, and long-term commercial control.
Leaders across the innovation lifecycle: Businesses, research institutions, healthcare organisations, universities, and investors rely on us to help turn groundbreaking research into scalable opportunity. From clinical development to market entry, we bring structure to the moments where innovation needs to move.
Global strategy, local command: With offices across Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, we bring seamless global coordination to transactions that cannot afford fragmentation. Our teams align strategy, timing, and local execution so clients can move across markets with confidence.
Trusted on defining mandates: From landmark pharmaceutical transactions and IP-rich joint ventures to notable celebrity collaborations, our experience signals the trust our clients place in us in connection with some of the most intricate and highest-value IP-driven transactions in recent history.
Advice that sees the whole board: We help clients connect ownership, licensing, tax, transfer pricing, competition, corporate, regulatory, data, and governance considerations into one strategy. The result is integrated advice that links legal rights to deal economics, operating realities, and long-term commercial control.
Leaders across the innovation lifecycle: Businesses, research institutions, healthcare organisations, universities, and investors rely on us to help turn groundbreaking research into scalable opportunity. From clinical development to market entry, we bring structure to the moments where innovation needs to move.
Global strategy, local command: With offices across Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, we bring seamless global coordination to transactions that cannot afford fragmentation. Our teams align strategy, timing, and local execution so clients can move across markets with confidence.
Trusted on defining mandates: From landmark pharmaceutical transactions and IP-rich joint ventures to notable celebrity collaborations, our experience signals the trust our clients place in us in connection with some of the most intricate and highest-value IP-driven transactions in recent history.
Advice that sees the whole board: We help clients connect ownership, licensing, tax, transfer pricing, competition, corporate, regulatory, data, and governance considerations into one strategy. The result is integrated advice that links legal rights to deal economics, operating realities, and long-term commercial control.
Leaders across the innovation lifecycle: Businesses, research institutions, healthcare organisations, universities, and investors rely on us to help turn groundbreaking research into scalable opportunity. From clinical development to market entry, we bring structure to the moments where innovation needs to move.
Global strategy, local command: With offices across Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, we bring seamless global coordination to transactions that cannot afford fragmentation. Our teams align strategy, timing, and local execution so clients can move across markets with confidence.
End-to-end solutions
Our work spans the full range of IP transactions and commercial arrangements, from strategic acquisitions and data licensing to R&D collaborations and sponsorships. Explore our services:
Commercialisation and licensing
We structure technology, patent, know-how, software, data, and trademark and copyright licences that help turn IP into commercial advantage. Our work also covers merchandising, sponsorship, media rights, and endorsement arrangements where control, reach, and revenue need to be carefully balanced.
