The trade secrets practice advises across the full lifecycle of confidential business information, from identification and protection program design to transaction integration and enforcement. We advise clients on enterprise-wide trade secret audits, implementation of robust protection frameworks, and rapid response to misappropriation and other risk events.
With experience across consumer, life sciences, technology, and industrial sectors, the team helps clients safeguard high-value assets, mitigate risk, and execute with confidence in high-stakes situations.
How We Help Clients
- Trade secret identification, audit, and classification across technical, commercial, and operational assets
- Design and implementation of enterprise-grade protection programs, including governance, contractual, and technical safeguards
- Incident response planning and execution, including misappropriation, unauthorized access, and enforcement strategy
- Integration of trade secret strategy into M&A, financings, and commercial transactions, including IP diligence and ownership structuring
- Counseling on employment-related issues, including executive mobility, restrictive covenants, and confidentiality frameworks
- Ongoing program assessment and enhancement aligned with evolving business, regulatory, and threat environments
Awards
We are consistently recognized among the top practitioners in intellectual property transactions and licensing, with honors reflecting our impact on high-value collaborations and strategic transactions.
- World Intellectual Property Review: Global Trade Secrets Rankings (2024-2025)
- Chambers USA – Intellectual Property
- The Legal 500 US – Intellectual Property
- Chambers USA – Litigation: General Commercial
Experience
We counsel clients on the protection, management, and enforcement of trade secrets and confidential business information, including the design of internal safeguards.
- Dental laboratories in a restrictive covenant dispute with a former CEO of a Georgia-based dental laboratory.
- A global biopharmaceutical company on a trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract matter. The issue was discovered when a patent application from a biotech start-up publicly disclosed our client’s trade secrets, which were developed in a project overseen by a former employee, who now works at the start-up.
- A medical device company on avoiding and mitigating liability for trade secret misappropriation in its hiring and management of a competitor’s former general manager.
- A multinational conglomerate in connection with its collaboration with a multinational technology company to develop cloud computing services. We are representing our client to ensure that its trade secrets and confidential information are protected during the course of that engagement.
- Several large hedge funds about the implementation of a comprehensive intellectual property protection strategy.
- U.S. and multinational companies, including in China and Korea, addressing respect for third-party trade secrets.
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