DALLAS – April 13, 2022 – Steven E. Bartz and Jerry Fellows, shareholders in the Dallas office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will present at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Dallas-Fort Worth’s Annual In-House Symposium, April 14 at 12:30 p.m. CDT.
Bartz and Fellows will co-present the session titled, “Assessing and Protecting Intellectual Property Value in Joint Ventures,” which will explore IP-related issues that co-venturers should carefully consider when entering into a joint venture. During the session, attendees will learn about the importance of thinking through joint ventures IP inputs and outputs, how they evolve and what may jeopardize the success and value ultimately created by contemplated joint ventures.
Bartz, a member of the Greenberg Traurig Corporate Practice, focuses his practice on transactions involving sophisticated joint ventures (“JVs”) and strategic alliances. Over the past 15 years, Bartz has concentrated his practice on the creation, negotiation, and implementation of both JVs unrelated to M&A transactions, such as private investment funds, and in connection with M&A transactions. Bartz also advises clients in connection with M&A transactions unrelated to JVs, private placements, and compliance and regulatory issues relating to corporate governance, Advisers Act status and compliance, Investment Company Act matters, broker-dealer matters, and securities regulation as it applies to private transactions.
Fellows, a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, consults with clients on their objectives and provides strategic legal guidance on their most important issues, enhances their intellectual property protection and enforcement strategies, and helps prepare them for issues that may impact their business opportunities. His practice includes clearing, acquiring and enforcing United States and foreign patent rights, particularly for enterprise and process software, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and metaverse-related innovations, Internet and business methods, biomedical technologies including medical, dental, and cardiac laser systems and their graphical user interfaces, alternative energy innovations, sustainable technologies, and electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical technologies.
The ACC, with more than 60 chapters and networks, is known for promoting the common professional and business interests of in-house counsel.