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Goodwin Offices

520 Broadway Suite #500
Santa Monica
CA 90401
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Aaron Thompson

Position
Associate
Career
Aaron Thompson represents companies and individuals in both high-stakes commercial litigation and prelitigation business disputes and counseling. With a sharp eye for the details of the case, knack for creative thinking, and command of both technological and economic concepts, Aaron has defended his clients’ interests and protected them from hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. His litigation and dispute counseling experience spans a broad range of industry sectors, including private equity, technology, life sciences, cannabis, and REITs. Through his work, Aaron has developed experience in a broad array of technologies, including smartphone architecture, cloud-based entertainment services, wireless communication protocols and standards (LTE, 5G, 802.11), digital video encoding and streaming technology and standards, and error correcting codes. Aaron’s work has included handling disputes related to patents, trade secrets, copyrights, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity matters.
Education
JD 2010 Georgetown University Law Center; BA, History 2006 University of California, Irvine
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation