Jed provides transactional counseling in relation to intellectual property issues that arise in a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions as well as strategic patent counseling.  Leveraging a career of more than 20 years as an IP attorney, Jed has gained a broad and deep understanding of intellectual property law and honed his commercial sensibilities across a variety of industries.   

Jed advises clients on stand-alone licensing arrangements, technology development agreements, the acquisition and sale of privately and publicly owned companies, and the formation of joint ventures and technology collaborations within the United States and across borders. Clients regularly call on Jed to lead the complex negotiations of IP provisions necessary to implement these transactions and to manage the related diligence processes.  He has supported deals across a multitude of industries, including in the automotive, nuclear power, medical device, software, computing and telecommunications, life sciences, food and beverage, fintech, insuretech, block chain, cosmetics, health care, and consumer products industries.

Having drafted and negotiated the IP provisions of hundreds of transactions over the last several years alone, Jed is a skilled negotiator, ensuring that the business goals of participants remain at the forefront of any deal.  Jed excels at explaining the impact of contractual provisions on business objectives in ways that are understandable and actionable by his clients.  His MIT education and twenty plus years as a registered patent attorney enable him to quickly learn and intelligently discuss new technologies from deal to deal to make sure contract provisions are relevant to the underlying technologies that are involved.