Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Stevens Law Group also can support the technology and IP aspects of broader M&A deal efforts or corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, joint ventures, financings, and restructurings. The due diligence associated with IP assets at issue in a complex corporate transaction – such as ascertaining the scope, ownership, assignability, and relative value of IP rights – requires the meticulous attention to detail and technology background that SLG can bring in support of the deal.
• Trade Secrets
  Our trade secret experts are able to help create a trade secret program to identify, establish and protect a company’s valuable secrets.  This includes proper company policies, procedures and safeguards to protect their valuable trade secrets, and to also manage which company innovations are kept secret or relinquished in favor of published patent applications or issued patents.  It also includes to avoid new hires from inadvertently bringing in trade secrets of former employers.  Proper human resource procedures and policies are the foundation of proper trade secret protection and risk management, and employee education is paramount to a sound trade secret program.
• Intellectual Property
  Stevens Law Group has earned a strong reputation and has a well-established practice in all areas of intellectual property law. The practice includes the preparation and prosecution of applications for patents and trademarks, post-grant proceedings, patent and trademark licensing, patent and trademark infringement litigation, and outside general counsel services. The firm is dedicated to