Legal Partners

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has 550 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing throughout the United States, with offices in Washington, D.C., Alexandria, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Miami, Aventura, Tampa, Wilmington, Princeton, Newark, San Diego, Temecula and Silicon Valley. In California, the firm is known as Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP.

Buchanan's attorneys have experience in industries that include entertainment and media, pharmaceuticals and biomedicine, nanotechnology, financial institutions, construction, franchise and real estate. Within these and other industries, Buchanan attorneys focus on more than 65 practice areas including Corporate Finance, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Tax, Government Relations, Health Care and Labor & Employment. The firm serves national and international clients that include Fortune 500 corporations, start-ups, technology companies and financial institutions.

Foley & Lardner LLP represents technology companies in all stages of the business life cycle, from start-up through angel and venture capital funding to successful exits.

Foley's Emerging Technology attorneys understand the needs of creative, fast-moving businesses and provide practical advice from equity and founder issues, venture financings, and strategic alliances to employment matters, private and public securities, acquisitions, and complex financings. From Boston to Silicon Valley, we play a key part in the local and regional start-up communities and have close contacts with angel and venture funds, accelerator programs, and university tech centers and tech transfer offices.

Our world-class Intellectual Property lawyers possess exceptional technical skills and business insight in many of the industries represented at the Nantucket Conference: social media, communications, mobility, gaming, electronics, cleantech, health IT, and software, among others. In addition to our IP experience, the firm is nationally recognized as a thought-leader in privacy, IT outsourcing, open source, and government relations.

We have more than 70 attorneys in our Boston office who are deeply committed to the emerging technology sector and work in tightly integrated teams with colleagues in 21 offices across the country and internationally in Shanghai, Brussels, and Tokyo to offer seamless and comprehensive counsel to innovative companies spanning every stage of the life cycle, from start-up to public ownership.

Gowlings, one of Canada's largest law firms, is a premier provider of legal solutions. Its specialized Technology Industry Group blends business law and IP expertise with first-hand experience in cleantech, software, nanotechnology, e-commerce, wireless and telecom and delivers deep expertise in Open Source Software licensing matters. 

Through specialist teams that include legal professionals with extensive experience in both science and engineering, Gowlings works with its clients to develop customized strategies that help achieve their goals. Assisting a variety of technology-driven organizations, Gowlings provides solutions at every stage of development, from start-ups to international companies.

BEITEN BURKHARDT is an independent international commercial law firm with over 390 lawyers. We advise medium-sized companies, large corporations and groups of various industries, particularly in the IT and Telecommunications area as well as the public sector comprehensively on all aspects of commercial law. Apart from our offices in Germany, we have a strong international presence in Eastern Europe, China and Brussels. We cooperate closely with excellent law firms in other key markets. In teams managed by partners we are developing solutions for our clients on performance-minded terms. 

Cotty Vivant Marchisio & Lauzeral is an independent corporate law firm, having a presence in Paris, Tokyo, Singapore and Dubai. The firm is composed of some 45 lawyers, who all share the same values: the pursuit of excellence and the search for pragmatic and effective solutions for our clients.

The Firm has rapidly developed since its inception and is now considered as one of the leading firms in the French market, in particular in technology-related matters.

Cotty Vivant Marchisio & Lauzeral represents corporate as well as institutional clients, and ranging from publicly traded companies to start-ups, in a number of jurisdictions (in France, Japan, South East Asia and the Middle East).

The Firm advises clients on domestic and international transactions as well as with regard to dispute resolution in all major fields of business law, including IT, IP, M&A, private equity, stock exchange and financial law, tax, and labour law.

Delphi is one of the foremost commercial law firms in Sweden and our clients are to be found primarily in Scandinavia, Europe and North America. We help our clients with mergers and acquisitions and advise them on matters of banking, finance and capital markets. We also litigate at court and in arbitration and are acknowledged as being extremely competent in public procurement and environmental law.

A large number of our lawyers are specialists in high-tech fields such as IT, intellectual property and life sciences and we have extensive experience of helping our clients with IT assignments. This includes providing advice on IT-related business such as procurement of services and systems. Our lawyers are highly ranked in IT and Telecom and in 2012 Delphi was named "IT/Telecom Law Firm of the Year" by BG Research's Client Barometer.

In ten years of legal practice, Kemp Little has earned a reputation for top quality, cost effective delivery in the technology, media and telecoms sector that remains unsurpassed. The depth and range of their client base and experience give them the edge. Kemp Little recognises that success in a world driven by technology means using lawyers who understand it. Clients range from the largest global public companies and organisations to early stage ventures with exciting new technologies. Kemp Little’s goal is to provide their clients with what they want - the best legal advice, delivered by people who are as focused, entrepreneurial and commercial as they are, on time and on budget.

Racine is a corporate law firm established in France. In addition to branches in Paris and the provinces, they have an international network of offices, including an outfit in Brussels (Racine & Vergels), in Beirut (HKM & Partners) and different partnerships around the world. With nearly 100 lawyers, 35 of whom are partners, Racine provides legal advice and represents its clients in litigation.

The Information Technologies Department is made up of respected lawyers with a proven track record in this field. The company provides legal advice and handles litigation for large groups, public sector entities and SMEs and is particularly in : network and IT disputes and advice; protecting and upgrading intangible assets; dematerialization of transmissions and filing – digital evidence law; outsourcing ; IT system structure; personal data protection & internet.

Racine also advise companies on choosing the protection measures adapted to their needs and on draft agreements regarding the use or transfer of their intellectual property assets. Their Intellectual and Industrial Property team therefore works in the following fields on a regular basis: brands (protecting and defending the brands against third-party infringements, assignments and licences, co-existence agreements, forfeiture and nullity disputes, counterfeiting claims); trademarks and domain names; designs and models (protecting designs and models, assignments, designer and artistic director contracts); know-how (transfer of know-.how, research and development agreements); copyright (transfer and use of copyright, publishing contracts, audiovisual contracts, translation contracts).