Kieran C. Dickinson > Latham & Watkins LLP > Orange County, United States > Lawyer Profile

Kieran C. Dickinson

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Career

Kieran Dickinson is counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Data & Technology Transactions Practice.

Kieran advises clients on structuring and negotiating strategic technology transactions, patent licensing, intellectual property (IP) litigation, and counseling, and complex M&A and finance issues. His experience includes the following:

Strategic Technology Transactions

• • Structures and negotiates high-end strategic technology transactions and outsourcing agreements, including patent, know-how, software, and trademark licenses; strategic alliances and collaborations; e-commerce platform agreements; SaaS agreements; information technology outsourcing transactions; business process outsourcing transactions; facilities management and warehouse outsourcing transactions; medical device licensing and sales agreements; manufacturing and supply agreements; development agreements; university licenses; consulting agreements; and other commercial agreements, including in the blockchain space

Patent Licensing, IP Litigation, and IP Counseling

• • Advises on patent licensing issues, and negotiates, dozens of licenses settling patent disputes and litigation in high-profile cases
  • Advises on strategic acquisitions of patents and patent portfolios and negotiates purchases
  • Advises on high-value trademark licenses and disputes
  • Authored published articles on patent privateering and standing, covenants not to sue, and licensing
  • Advises on open source software issues, including writing open source software policies and advising on compliance with open source software licenses

Mergers & Acquisitions/Finance

• • Advises on intellectual property issues in hundreds of M&A transactions
  • Significant experience in complex cross-border carve-out transactions
  • Carve-out work includes evaluating of IP portfolios, disputes, and licenses, handling IP issues in purchase agreements, and negotiating cross-license agreements, transition agreements, supply agreements, facilities agreements, and other commercial agreements
  • Advises on IP issues in scores of corporate financings and initial public offerings