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In this workshop series, we will cover a framework for how CEOs and Heads of Technical teams can address tough legal challenges.

Topics:

First session 12.15.20 with Matt Savare - Identifying IP strategies including copyright, patents, and trademarks.

Second session 1.12.21 with Bryan Sterba - Open-source legal issues, why it is important to have a strategy and how to enforce an open-source policy.

Third session 1.19.21 with Carl Hessler - Preparing to raise venture capital financing and legal pitfalls to avoid.

The workshops will cover legal topics for series A companies and beyond. Please bring questions for a Q & A portion at the end of the session.

About the Speakers:

Carl Hessler is a Partner in Lowenstein Sandler’s Tech Group. Carl represents emerging technology companies and the investors who fund them across a range of industries, including cybersecurity, software as a service, educational technology, artificial intelligence systems, healthcare, insurance tech and life sciences. He has led clients through hundreds of venture capital transactions and brings a practical business perspective to the table. Carl also has an active M&A practice and has advised clients in business combinations with serial acquirers such as Google, Oracle, Walmart, Twitter and Facebook.

Rohit Jain is a business leader with over ten years of experience as an operator, investor, and banker. He is a North America Business Development Lead, Oracle for Startups. Prior to Oracle, Rohit worked in business development closing large partnerships and strategy at technology banks, a family office, early-stage startups, and invested personally in the seed stage of startups including Lob.com, Represent.com (acq) Dogvacay(acq), and many others.

Bryan Sterba offers intellectual property, technology, and data security-related advice and counsel to clients across a broad spectrum of industries, including the financial, media, and advertising sectors. He works diligently with clients on the full range of intellectual property issues that arise in M&A and licensing contracts, as well as counsels global and national funds (including private equity, hedge, and distressed funds) and other clients on the IP and IT issues involved in complex public and private asset or stock acquisitions, LBOs, and divestitures. He regularly counsels clients on open source licensing issues, including advising on procedures for the management of in-house and outsourced resources that utilize open source materials.