Latham & Watkins LLP

Kieran Dickinson is counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Data & Technology Transactions Practice.

Kieran advises clients on structuring and negotiating strategic technology transactions, patent licensing, intellectual property (IP) litigation, and counseling, and complex M&A and finance issues. His experience includes the following:

Strategic Technology Transactions Structures and negotiates high-end strategic technology transactions and outsourcing agreements, including patent, know-how, software, and trademark licenses; strategic alliances and collaborations; e-commerce platform agreements; SaaS agreements; information technology outsourcing transactions; business process outsourcing transactions; facilities management and warehouse outsourcing transactions; medical device licensing and sales agreements; manufacturing and supply agreements; development agreements; university licenses; consulting agreements; and other commercial agreements, including in the blockchain space Patent Licensing, IP Litigation, and IP Counseling Advises on patent licensing issues, and negotiates, dozens of licenses settling patent disputes and litigation in high-profile cases Advises on strategic acquisitions of patents and patent portfolios and negotiates purchases Advises on high-value trademark licenses and disputes Authored published articles on patent privateering and standing, covenants not to sue, and licensing Advises on open source software issues, including writing open source software policies and advising on compliance with open source software licenses Mergers & Acquisitions/Finance Advises on intellectual property issues in hundreds of M&A transactions Significant experience in complex cross-border carve-out transactions Carve-out work includes evaluating of IP portfolios, disputes, and licenses, handling IP issues in purchase agreements, and negotiating cross-license agreements, transition agreements, supply agreements, facilities agreements, and other commercial agreements Advises on IP issues in scores of corporate financings and initial public offerings