Atiyah Wang is an associate in the intellectual property (“IP”) transactions group. She advises clients in a wide range of transactions where technology, data or other IP assets are key elements, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, license agreements, complex collaborations, product funding and co-development agreements, royalty monetization agreements and general commercial agreements. Her practice particularly focuses on transactions relating to digital health and artificial intelligence. She has digital health product counselling experience through multiple secondments as a senior corporate counsel to the Digital Transactions Group at Sanofi. Leveraging her doctorate in electrical engineering and her background in patent prosecution and litigation, Atiyah also provides strategic counselling to clients on a variety of patent matters, including development and management of patent portfolios, pre-litigation review and freedom-to-operate analyses.
Prior to joining the IP transactions group, Atiyah worked on district court and ITC patent litigation proceedings and post-grant proceedings in a wide range of technical areas, including wireless communications, computer security, semiconductors and media services. She also prosecuted an extensive global patent portfolio, primarily relating to media services and semiconductor technologies.
During her doctoral studies, Atiyah optimized optical networking technologies to enable greater Internet bandwidth at lower latency and higher energy-efficiency. Her graduate work was a foundational element for the Center for Integrated Access Networks (“CIAN”), a multi-university research consortium set up by the National Science Foundation. Through CIAN, Atiyah collaborated with multiple leading optical networking research groups in U.S. and Europe and has contributed to several peer reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings. Atiyah also co-founded a start-up company, PICXIE, to evaluate commercialization opportunities for a patented optical monitoring technology developed through CIAN.
Experience
Digital Health Transactions
- Represented Genesis Therapeutics in a in a strategic collaboration with Gilead Sciences to discover and develop novel small molecule therapies across multiple targets.
- Represented Recursion Pharmaceuticals in its collaboration with Enamine, a Kyiv, Ukraine based provider of novel molecules, to generate enriched screening libraries by utilizing Recursion's machine learning enabled platform for predicting protein-ligand interactions, MatchMaker, to Enamine's library of approximately thirty-six billion compounds.
- Represented a pharmaceutical company in negotiating a supply & distribution agreement, patient services access agreement and trademark license agreement with a pharmacy company.
- Represented Calm.com, a software company offering meditation and sleep solutions in its subscription-based app, in a strategic partnership agreement with a pharmacy, care, and benefits solution provider.
- Represented Atomwise, an AI small molecule drug discovery company, in negotiating a $1+ billion multi-target collaboration with Sanofi to identify potential active compounds associated with certain targets of interest to accelerate Sanofi's drug development pipeline.
- Represented a laboratory instrument company in an exclusive option to acquire a biotechnology company that delivers high-definition spatial proteomics.
- Represented Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm, in connection with its Series C equity investment in ConcertAI, LLC, a provider of software-as-a-service and data solutions for clinical research, leveraging real-world evidence, artificial intelligence technology, and scientific expertise to accelerate insights and outcomes for patients.
- Represented an affiliate of Baring Private Equity Asia in a definitive agreement to sell the surgical business of Lumenis Ltd. to Boston Scientific Corp. for $1.07 billion in cash, subject to closing adjustments.
- Represented The Vistria Group and Excellere Partners in its investment in SCA Pharmaceuticals, an FDA-registered outsourcing facility serving over 1,200 hospitals and health systems in the United States.
Data, Technology, and Other Transactions
- Represented Empire Today, a flooring company, in its successful liability management and financing transaction that received the support of more than 99% of the company's lenders.
- Represented REV Group, Inc., a manufacturer of industry-leading specialty vehicle brands, in the sale of its school bus business, Collins Bus Corporation, to Forest River Bus, LLC, a Berkshire Hathaway company, for a purchase price of $303.0 million in cash (subject to customary adjustments).
- Represented Proterial, Ltd., a portfolio company of Bain Capital, in the pending sale of its subsidiary, Waupaca Foundry, Inc., the world's largest iron manufacturer, to Monomoy Capital Partners.
- Represented Crosspoint Capital Partners in connection with a €65 million Series A follow-on investment in Ireland-based Everseen, a leading provider of AI-powered computer vision and hyper automation solutions.
- Represented Planview in its acquisitions of Tasktop, a pioneer and leader in Value Stream Management (VSM), and Enrich, a product portfolio analytics company.
- Represented Irth Solutions, a portfolio company of Gauge Capital, in its sale to Blackstone Energy Partners.
- Represented New Mountain Capital and its portfolio company Bounteous in the acquisitions of Hathway and Lister Technologies.
- Represented McAfee Corp., a global leader in online protection, in its agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by Advent International Corporation and Permira Advisers LLC, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, GIC Private Limited, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
- Advised TPG Capital and Francisco Partners in connection with their joint acquisition of Boomi, a provider of cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS), from Dell Technologies for $4 billion.
- Represented affiliates of New Mountain Capital on its acquisition of Aegion Corp., a leading provider of infrastructure maintenance, rehabilitation and protection solutions, in a transaction valued at approximately $963 million.
- Represented TPG in connection with the sale of McAfee’s enterprise business to Symphony Technology Group in an all-cash carve-out transaction for $4 billion.
- Represented Worldwide Facilities in its agreement to be acquired by Amwins Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services.
- Represented TPG in connection with its simultaneous carve-out acquisition of AT&T’s television business, including DirecTV and AT&T TV, and purchase of a 30% stake in the newly carved-out business for $1.8 billion.
- Represented TPG Capital and its portfolio company Ellucian, specializing in information technology software and services designed for higher education institutions, in connection with the sale of Ellucian to private equity companies.
- Represented Dunes Point Capital, LP on its creation of Premium Label & Packaging Solution, LLC, a group holding company for specialty label converters, to make an investment in Overnight Labels, Inc.
- Represented a private equity firm in connection with its early-stage investment in a company offering an AI-powered computer vision platform for improving business outcomes in supply chain and retail industries.
- Represented a private equity firm in connection with its low triple digit million dollar equity investment at low single digit billion dollar valuation in a company providing AI driven insights and automation for IT data.
Patent Litigation
- Emerson Electric v. SIPCO et al. (N.D. Ga., ITC, PTAB): Served as technical advisor to Emerson Electric in a 10-patent lawsuit, multiple inter partes review proceedings, re-examination proceedings and ITC proceedings relating to mesh network technology, securing a favorable decision in each case and appeal that reached a final decision.
- Blue Spike, LLC v. Roku, Inc. (D. Del.): Served as technical advisor to Roku in a seven-patent suit relating to secure transactions, which resulted in a favorable settlement on behalf of Roku.