An integrated, cross-disciplinary approach brings together transactional, litigation, data privacy, and employment capabilities to protect and maximize the value of trade secrets.
The practice advises across the full lifecycle of confidential business information, from identification and protection program design to transaction integration and enforcement. Capabilities include 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.
What We Do
- 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
Experience & Awards
- 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.
- U.S. and multinational companies, including in China and Korea, addressing respect for third-party trade secrets.
- 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.
- Several large hedge funds about the implementation of a comprehensive intellectual property protection strategy.
- Dental laboratories in a restrictive covenant dispute with a former CEO of a Georgia-based dental laboratory.
- 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.
- World Intellectual Property Review: Global Trade Secrets Rankings (2024-2025)
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A quality firm with excellent people on both the transaction side and for litigation.
They understand risk. You don't get opinions that are conservative or done in a vacuum.
They understand risk. You don't get opinions that are conservative or done in a vacuum.
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