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Anne Cappella

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Position

Partner

Career

Anne M. Cappella is a partner in Weil’s Silicon Valley office, where she focuses on patent counseling and litigation involving complex technologies. Anne has a uniquely diverse intellectual property counseling practice, which includes advising clients on pre-litigation patent strategies, technical aspects of patent licensing arrangements, patent acquisitions, and intellectual property due diligence for M&A transactions.

Education

Southern Methodist University (B.S.E.E., 1988); The University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 1995)

Top Tier Firm Rankings

• M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
• Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Environment > Environment: transactional
• Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
• Tax > International tax
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Antitrust > Merger control
• Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
• Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
• Tax > US taxes: non-contentious

Firm Rankings

• Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
• Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
• Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
• Finance > Commercial lending
• Intellectual property > Copyright
• Tax > Financial products
• Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
• M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
• Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
• Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
• Industry focus > Sport
• Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
• Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
• Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
• Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
• Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
• Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
• Real estate > Real estate
• Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
• Finance > Structured finance: securitization
• Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
• Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
• International trade and national security > CFIUS
• Healthcare > Life sciences
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense