Fenwick & West LLP provides comprehensive legal services to ground-breaking technology and life sciences companies – at every stage of their lifecycle – and the investors that partner with them. We craft innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions on issues ranging from venture capital, public offerings, joint ventures, M&A and strategic relationships, to intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution, taxation, antitrust, and employment and labor law. For more than four decades, Fenwick has helped some of the world's most recognized companies become and remain market leaders. Content may include attorney advertising.
Recognized among America’s most trusted corporate law firms, we guide technology and life sciences companies through industry-shaping corporate, M&A, capital markets and venture transactions.
Fenwick partners with pioneering technology and life sciences companies at all stages of development—from promising early startups to the world’s best-known publicly traded corporations. Our lawyers are recognized for practical legal and business guidance, focusing on startups and venture capital, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation and benefits, and corporate governance.
We represent companies, including buyers and sellers, founders, executives and investors. Collaborating across offices and disciplines, our teams work with clients on transformative transactions involving cutting-edge technologies including those related to enterprise software, SaaS/cloud, security, consumer tech, digital media and gaming, digital health and life sciences.
We provide clients with the tools they need to manage our efficiency and collaborate effectively, leading to client satisfaction and predictability in outside counsel expenses. These tools include:
Our litigation group has significant experience litigating and managing complex, multi-jurisdiction IP disputes, including managing matters in Asia and Europe. We have a strong network of international firms with whom we work. We select the best counsel in each jurisdiction, based on the specific client need. Because many of these relationships are decades old, our clients receive seamless service and billing when we collaborate with one of our foreign law firm partners.
Fenwick is committed to applying legally compliant data security measures to all data subject to the European Union Directive on Data Protection, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commission of Switzerland and the laws of each other country that provides privacy protections to its citizens.
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Fenwick's commercially savvy intellectual property lawyers partner with companies at all stages of their lifecycle to create, exploit, manage and protect their most valuable intellectual property assets in the context of their key business objectives.
Our IP counseling, transactions and prosecution professionals represent many of the world’s most innovative technology and life sciences companies—from developers of futuristic life-prolonging technologies to those that are investing in the next wave of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, automation and robotics products and tools. We also collaborate closely with our corporate, litigation and tax teams to deliver full-service strategic advice.
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