Marisa Brutoco > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > Orange County, United States > Lawyer Profile

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
650 TOWN CENTER DRIVE
FOURTH FLOOR
COSTA MESA, CA 92626
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Work Department

Intellectual Property

Position

Marisa Brutoco is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm’s Orange County and Silicon Valley offices and is a Team Leader of the firm’s Technology & Commercial Transactions Team.

Marisa Brutoco uses her years of experience working with some of the world’s most innovative technology companies to help provide strategic legal and business advice for her clients regarding technology, commercial, and intellectual property transactions. Marisa was in-house counsel at Amazon, Google/YouTube, GoPro, and Apple. Marisa has significant industry expertise in areas including healthcare, telecom, edtech, clean tech, entertainment/digital media, news, sports, the metaverse and government contracts.

Marisa negotiates deals and advises on issues and product launches related to software/software as a service, cloud computing, hardware development, mobile and online app development and distribution, procurement, services and vendor agreements, the Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR), IP licensing and assignments, and data licensing.

Marisa serves on Boards for her alma maters, Stanford Law School and Stanford University, and has been a speaker at conferences and a guest lecturer at Stanford Law School. She is active in pro bono matters, is on the firm’s pro bono committee and she is a member of her office’s diversity and inclusion working group.

Education

J.D., Stanford Law School, 2004

A.B., International Relations, Political Science, Stanford University, 2000

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has an experienced cross-disciplinary technology transactions team which combines a mixtire of corporate, IP, and entertainment and media lawyers. The firm has been particularly busy advising media and entertainment companies on NFT launches, while on the M&A side, it assisted Sony Interactive Entertainment on its acquisition of the Seattle-based videogame developer Valkyrie Entertainment. The ‘responsive and knowledgeableBrian Anderson and Daniel Schnapp in New York jointly lead the team with Michael Orlando in San Diego and Marisa Brutoco in Orange County. ‘Excellent’ associate, Brittany Walter (San Diego), is also singled out for her ‘good eye towards substantive legal issues‘.