Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has a sophisticated IP and commercial transactions team that regularly represents multinational corporations across the life sciences, hospitality, and transportation industries in IP-driven transactions and commercial agreements. The team operates under the leadership of New York-based Frank Azzopardi, an expert in structuring commercial and licensing agreements to maximize asset value, with clients spanning consumer products, media, and airlines. Other key members of the New York team include Pritesh Shah, who specializes in IP transactions related to technology, mobile apps, and data monetization; Matthew Bacal, who focuses on complex commercial agreements and copyright issues; and David Bauer, who has extensive experience representing life sciences clients in IP-related corporate and commercial transactions, such as those involving gene therapies and small molecule pharmaceuticals.
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Key clients
- Airbus
- Arcos Dorados
- Baker Hughes
- Campbell Soup Company
- Clarivate
- Comcast
- CoreWeave
- Dollar Tree
- Ferrero Group
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
- JetBlue Airways
- Natura & Co
Work highlights
Advising JetBlue Airways in its strategic collaboration with United Airlines to launch "Blue Sky", a collaboration that allows carriers to sell seats on each other's flights and customers to have new opportunities to earn and use the MileagePlus miles and TrueBlue points across both airlines.
Advising Sycamore Partners on its up to $23.7 billion acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Advising Ferrero Group on its $3.1 billion acquisition of W K Kellogg Co and acquisition of Power Crunch.
Practice head
Frank Azzopardi
Other key lawyers
Pritesh Shah; Matthew Bacal; David Bauer