DALLAS – April 18, 2022 – Steven E. Bartz and Jerry Fellows, shareholders in the Dallas office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will speak on an in-person panel at the Financial Executives International (FEI)’s Dallas Chapter Private Equity Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Series April 20 at 5 p.m.
Bartz and Fellows will present “Assessing and Protecting Intellectual Property Value in Joint Ventures,” which will cover intellectual-property-related issues that co-venturers should carefully consider when entering into a joint venture. Joining them will be accounting firm Weaver’s senior manager of valuation services, Tyler Ridley.
FEI is a leading association comprised of members who hold positions as chief financial officers, chief accounting officers, treasurers, tax executives, and controllers at companies in every major industry. FEI enhances member professional development through peer networking, conferences, research, career management services, and publications, according to its website.
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 mergers and acquisitions (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 U.S. 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.