Innovation Arbitrage™Realizing Maximum Returns From Innovation & IP Assets▪ Our Innovation Arbitrage™ transactional practice realizes maximum returns from innovation and IP assets: adding new revenue directly to your bottom line through monetization, or creating competitive advantage through acquisitions.

▪ Fine-tuned to capture innovation value, these transactions (buy-side & sell-side) include: licensing/assignment, M&A, new business creation or SPVs for assets ranging from IP portfolios, to product lines to entire operating companies.

▪ Realizing optimal innovation & IP advantage – taking you from innovation assets to innovation returns.

Practice Overview:  Innovation Arbitrage™ is our transactional practice (buy-side & sell-side).  We identify innovation or IP assets that capture an advantaged commercial position, identify (or create) the best market opportunity, and then monetize the assets – often in novel ways, creating new opportunities and unleashing additional value/revenue.

The innovation assets we typically transact range from IP portfolios, to product lines, to entire operating companies: established or start-ups.  Depending upon our client's objectives, realizing optimal value might involve transactional (e.g. license/assign) work, partnerships, novel business models or new business creation.

Client Benefits:  Innovation Arbitrage™ strategic transactional capabilities allow our clients to enjoy benefits that include:

▪ Revenue Generation: Through sale, assignment or licensing of IP, product lines and operating companies.

▪ Competitive Performance: Improved competitiveness through acquisitions (technology and operating firms), cost savings and market access.

▪ Adaptive Business Models: Employ novel business models that can adapt to changing market conditions and keep you ahead of the competition.

▪ Market Access: Low-cost, low-risk segue into new markets or geographies through acquisitions and licensing.

▪ Risk Mitigation: Access to alternative technology/firms as a hedge against internal execution risk.

How We Engage:  As part of our Innovation Arbitrage™ we work with clients to identify and evaluate opportunities, valuation, develop the business and negotiations strategy, negotiate the terms of the actual agreement with the other party, and close the deal.  We can do this for you, with you, or guide you from behind the scenes – as always, its about what works best for our client.

▪ Transactional Strategy & Execution: Our deep transactional experience positions us to develop and execute optimal strategies for either the sale or acquisition of innovation and IP assets:

▪ Licensing, Assignment, M&A, Strategic Partnerships and SPVs

▪ Asset Discovery: Identify innovation and IP assets (internal & external) that enable high-value transactional opportunities.  Assessing technology advantage, competitive market position, IP protection, as well as dependencies for its commercial success – now and into the future.

▪ Offensive/Defensive Patent Aggregation

▪ Identifying Internal & External IP/Innovation Assets With Commercial (Product/Monetization) Potential

▪ Opportunity Discovery:  Opportunity Discovery broadly identifies (or creates) business opportunities enabling you to realize value and market advantage from innovation/IP assets – on either the buy-side or sell-side.

▪ IP/Innovation Asset Monetization, New Business Creation, Licensing, M&A

▪ Analytics Capability: Fine-tuned for identifying and valuing IP/Innovation business opportunities, our integrated analytics approach synthesizes information about relevant technologies, IP, products, companies and markets.

Our Approach:  Embracing the innovation spirit  ourselves, we've created a new type of arbitrage: transactions and novel business models fine-tuned for monetizing innovation and IP assets.  We achieve uniquely advantaged results in the sale and acquisition of innovation assets by leveraging our deep understanding of the commercial innovation eco-system: how value is created, captured and lost in that marketplace.

Experience:  Our Innovation Arbitrage™ practice draws upon over 20 years of successfully completing hundreds of millions of dollars in high-value technology deals on both the buy-side and sell-side.  With experience across a broad array of transaction types, myriad corporations and three continents, we're poised to help you frame, draft and close the deal.  So, we know how to best architect the deal and execute the transaction to achieve the greatest value for our clients.

In addition to this Innovation Arbitrage™ transactional and monetization capability, our Strategic Innovation Practice focuses on the strategic creation of high-value innovation/IP assets, and our Cross-Border Practice helps you realize the greatest value by bridging across national borders to create new opportunities – especially "East-West".

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