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Practice Areas: Specializes in transactions involving development, licensing, acquisition, and sale of intellectual property and technology. Transactions typically involve strategic alliances/ joint ventures; commercialization/distribution arrangements; BPO/IT sourcing, and resolution of related disputes. Represents clients in adversarial patent license negotiations and portfolio acquisition. Clients generally operate in high technology, life sciences, and financial services industries.

Career: Former Co-Chair of firm's Technology Transactions Group. Formerly resident in firm's Tokyo and Brussels offices. Admitted to practice in California.

Personal: BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1986; JD, Hastings College of the Law, 1993; Clerk, Hon Claudia Wilken, Northern District of California, 1995-96.