Full Description
As intellectual property and intangible assets play an increasingly important role in determining company value, it is more important than ever that businesses and their legal advisers are able to identify and understand the key issues surrounding intellectual property when negotiating and implementing corporate transactions.
This book provides comprehensive guidance to the treatment of intellectual property across the full range of corporate transactions, from initial deal preparation, through negotiating points, to post-closure considerations. Chapters cover intellectual property in the context of all types of merger, acquisition and joint venture, with specialist examination of the core IP sectors: telecoms and electronics, life sciences, media and entertainment, and fast-moving consumer goods.
Exploring such allied topics as IP valuation and the relationship between intellectual property and competition law, this guide will be a valuable tool to anyone involved in corporate transactions, of which intellectual property now forms such an integral part.
Contents
Introduction 5
Neil Coulson
Baker Botts LLP
Intellectual property rights 7
Clive Thorne
Wedlake Bell LLP
Types of transaction 19
Richard Binns
Lydia Torne
Simmons & Simmons LLP
IP due diligence in 33
corporate proceedings
Paul Davies
EverEdgeIP
Warranties and indemnities 45
Christoff Pienaar
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc
Joint ventures 59
Neil Coulson
Baker Botts LLP
Life sciences 77
Colin McCall
Taylor Wessing
Fast-moving consumer goods 95
Zarah Rasool
Baker Botts LLP
Technology and telecoms 117
Mark Heaney
Amy Williams
Baker Botts LLP
Media and entertainment sectors: further copyright considerations 133
Tim Davison
Baker Botts (UK) LLP
Post-completion steps for intellectual property rights 157
Tom Farrand
Novagraaf UK
IP valuation 171
Michelle Korman
Stephen Robertson
Metis Partners
The relationship between IP law and competition law 187
Jonathan Cornthwaite
Wedlake Bell LLP
About the authors 201
