Structuring the Deals That Move Innovation Forward
For nearly 25 years, clients have trusted GTC with their most consequential commercial and technology transactions, from early-stage license agreements to patent portfolio acquisitions exceeding $3 billion in value. We structure IP portfolio licenses, joint venture and joint development transactions, strategic alliances, and complex cross-border licensing programs. We draft and negotiate a broad array of commercial and technology agreements, including software licenses; OEM, partner, referral, and reseller arrangements; outsourcing, supply, manufacturing, and distribution agreements; SaaS and cloud agreements; training data and AI model licenses; professional services and software development agreements; and content and rights agreements with publishers, studios, talent, and rightsholders.
We represent Fortune 50 enterprises, global technology leaders, venture-backed startups, universities, museums, authors, artists, performers, educators, industry consortia, family offices and individual inventors. Our clients build and ship across software, AI and machine learning, digital media and entertainment, publishing, telecommunications, financial services, insurance, healthcare and life sciences, automotive, robotics, hardware and semiconductors, advertising and martech, security, biotech, consumer products, manufacturing, and the fine arts. We routinely handle deals that span multiple jurisdictions, technology stacks, and rightsholder communities at once.
What distinguishes our practice is how it draws on the rest of the firm. Our transactional lawyers work day-to-day with the firm’s patent, AI, open source, privacy and cybersecurity, trademark, and M&A practices. In practice that means model and training data licensing informed by patent and copyright strategy; data processing, security, and cross-border transfer terms drawing on input from our privacy and cybersecurity team; open source positions vetted by the team that runs OSS audits; and commercial terms that hold up when the same asset is later financed or sold.
Our attorneys include veterans of leading law firms and senior in-house legal roles, with decades of experience working with the world’s leading technology and media companies.
