Ed Black is a head of Ropes & Gray’s Intellectual Property Transactions Group. He joined the firm after practicing in the areas of technology management, intellectual property, and media in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and in Boston.
Professional Experience
He represents companies and investors in the creation and management of intellectual assets in ways that optimize value return to the sponsors through various means, including best practice rights management, licensing, co-venturing, asset sale or debt based financing, holding company strategies, and other arrangements. Ed’s clients include technology companies, branded product companies, investment managers, media organizations, as well as companies and private equity organizations that acquire or invest in these businesses.
Ed remains active with a number of trade and professional associations where he is also a speaker on intellectual property, media, technology, and the operation of businesses built around proprietary rights.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2011)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Past Co-chair, Intellectual Property Committee of Boston Bar Association
Clerkships
- Honorable D. Lowell Jensen, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
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Education
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JD, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), 1989
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BA, with Honors, Brown University, 1986
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1997
- California, 1990
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