简介
科技、媒体和电信为市场带来的创新与日俱增。新的产品、新的服务、新的分销渠道和新的内容,引发了独特的业务挑战。公司和投资者必须要应对不断变化的监管法规、打破旧现状的创新业务模式、技术进步以及对知识产权保护的升级需求。
与谢尔曼•思特灵合作,客户可以使用一支专门组建的科技、媒体和电信业务律师团队,为他们提供有关资本募集、复杂的跨境收购和出售、合资合营及其他合作、知识产权(包括商标、著作权和专利)以及争议解决方面的战略意见和建议。
谢尔曼•思特灵的国际性平台致力于满足全球科技、媒体和电信公司以及那些希望进行扩张跨境业务的公司的需求。本所在美国东西两岸均设有多家办公室,并且在亚洲、欧洲和中东地区设有16家办公室,本所律师们在满足面向全球的科技、媒体和电信公司的需求方面驾轻就熟。
经验
Mergers & Acquisitions
- salesforce.com | in its acquisition of ClickSoftware, MapAnything, Inc., and Demandware, Inc.
- VMware, Inc. | in its acquisition of Octarine Labs, Inc.
- Centina Systems, Inc. | in its acquisition by Ciena Corporation
- Verimatrix | in its $65 million acquisition of silicon IP and secure protocols assets by Rambus
- Empyrean Benefit Solutions, Inc. | in its acquisition by Securian Financial Group, Inc.
- Q Engineering, LLC | in its acquisition by Enverus
- Owlchemy Labs, Inc. | in its acquisition by Google, Inc.
Emerging Growth: Venture Capital Financings
- Next Insurance | in its $250 million Series C financing
- salesforce.com | in its investments in InsideSales, Apttus, and MuleSoft
- Theatro Labs | in its $20 million Series C financing
- Eventus Systems | in its $10.5 million Series A financing, led by Jump Capital and LiveOak Venture Partners
- Decisio Health, Inc. | in its $13 million Series B financing led by GE Healthcare
Intellectual Property Transactions
- SQUARE, Inc. | on GDPR compliance and process playbooks relating to multiple data processing use cases
- Airbnb, Inc. | in connection with licensing agreements related to its rebranding and redesign of its products and marketing
Intellectual Property Litigation
- Elpida (current subsidiary of Micron Technology) | in an eight patent semiconductor memory litigation involving district court actions and an ITC investigation, which was successfully settled after summary determination briefing and prior to a hearing. Intellectual Ventures v. Elpida (D. Del., W.D. Wash., ITC)
- GNOME Foundation | secured a victory in a patent infringement suit filed by Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPI). In the walk-away settlement, GNOME received a release and covenant not to be sued for any patent held by RPI. In addition, the Shearman team secured a covenant and release on the Rothschild patent portfolio (more than 100 patents) for everyone in the world for the use of all open source software licenses (as approved by the Open Source Initiative).
Financial Advisor Counsel
- BuildGroup LLC | in connection with its purchase of approximately 1.78 million shares of Series A preferred stock of Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNFT) in a private placement for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $80 million
- Brentwood Associates | in its acquisitions of Credentials Solutions and Parchment
- Passport Capital | in connection with Overstock.com's registered direct offering of a $50 million warrant to purchase up to 1.25 million shares of Overstock common stock
Underwriters’ Counsel
- BofA Securities, Inc. and Piper Sandler & Co. | as sales agents in connection with the commencement of Akoustis Technologies, Inc.’s At-The-Market equity program to sell shares of its common stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to $50 million
- Cowen and Company, LLC and Needham & Company, LLC | as representatives of the underwriters, in connection with Adesto Technologies Corporation’s follow-on public offering of 6,700,000 shares of common stock. The net proceeds for the offering are intended to provide substantially all of the funding for Adesto’s acquisition of Echelon Corporation
- Citigroup, BofA Securities and J.P. Morgan | in connection with Omnicom Group Inc.’s $600 million offering of senior notes
- Barclays, BBVA, Mizuho Securities, RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities | in connection with American Tower Corporation’s offering of senior notes
FinTech Industry Experience
- Qatar Investment Authority | in its investment in SoFi
- Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and BAKKT Holdings | in connection with BAKKT’s formation and initial equity financing of $182.5 million from an investor syndicate. BAKKT will offer a federally regulated market for Bitcoin in order to transform Bitcoin into a trusted global currency with broad commercial usage
- Visa | in its acquisition of PlaySpan Inc.
- NASDAQ OMX Group | in its acquisition of the Investor Relations, Public Relations and Multimedia Solutions businesses of Thomson Reuters; on its acquisition of FTEN, Inc; in the creation of a joint venture with SharesPost, Inc. to form The NASDAQ Private Market LLC; in its joint bid, together with the Intercontinental Exchange, for NYSE Euronext
- Intuit Limited | in its acquisitions of several online and cloud-based payroll services companies, including PayCycle, Inc., Acrede Technology Group Holdings and PaySuite
科技
人工智能、大数据、云计算和机器学习将继续为在每一经济领域经营业务的方式带来改变。对技术的跨行业应用— 例如将汽车技术用应用于智能汽车、金融科技应用于银行业—使得公司可以继续进行跨行业创新。
技术和软件公司、背靠风险资本的和私人持有的公司、投资银行以及聚焦技术的私募股权基金的行业领袖们等等,在知识产权诉讼、隐私权和网络安全问题、反垄断及争议解决以及基于技术的并购、融资和资本募集交易中,全程需要取得战略性的意见和建议。本所专业的团队具有前瞻性思维,始终致力于解决技术世界的飞速进步所伴生的法律问题,坚持为你保驾护航。
我们在技术领域的服务对象还纳入了初创公司。特别是,本所在美国东西两岸的律师们都专于向客户提供覆盖公司成长所有方面的战略性意见和建议,例如资本性投资和知识产权保护等。
媒体和娱乐
欧盟和美国的监管变化继续对行业提出挑战。市场领袖们需要考虑社交媒体的增长以及对内容公司的持续并购所带来的影响。
我们在传媒娱乐行业的客户群组成多元,囊括了广播电视、有线电视网络、数字媒体、发行、电影、音乐、博彩和互联网服务等各领域的龙头企业。在这里,客户所有的业务和法律需求均得到了充分支持,包括并购、资本市场、融资、诉讼、知识产权、反垄断/竞争、税务、薪酬和公司治理方面的事务。
电信
随着移动和互联逐渐统治了整个电信市场,电信行业的监管格局随之不断变化。本所分布在全球各办公室的专门的电信业务律师团队,可以帮助客户在这一高度复杂的全球性的领域中顺利通行。
我们与世界上部分最大的固定通信和无线通信运营商、零售商、设备供应商、企业用户以及聚焦电信行业的投资银行合作,帮助他们经办并购、商业银行、证券发行及其他复杂的金融交易以及税务、战略性知识产权保护和强制执行、反垄断、争议解决、薪酬和公司治理方面的工作。
金融科技
金融服务业正在发生一场史无前例的技术革命。金融科技是一个巨大的成长型行业——这是一个看起来已经开始永续运转的轨道。随着技术的升级,金融服务也必须同步升级。到了需要对处理监管和法律问题的传统方法进行重新思考的时候了。谢尔曼•思特灵向客户提供以分布在全球各大金融中心和金融科技枢纽的经验丰富的律师和全球覆盖两大支柱为依托的服务。
金融科技为颠覆和创新提供了机会。金融产品的复杂性、持续变化的监管要求、以及提高盈利能力和精简流程的必要性,这一切正在推动金融服务业更大范围地采用更多的金融技术解决方案。但是,这些机会当然也伴随挑战,既有针对成熟金融企业的挑战,也有针对金融服务业新入行者的挑战。鉴于此,获得正确的支持,驾驭今天瞬息万变的法律和监管环境从未如此重要。本所律师为客户提供与金融科技及更大范围的金融服务业相关的战略性交易、监管合规及诉讼事项方面的意见和建议。
本所提供覆盖下列领域的意见和建议:
- 加速器和创新实验室
- 人工智能
- 区块链技术和分布式账本模式
- 联合体、合资合营及并购活动
- 众筹和P2P借贷
- 连接服务
- 数据服务和数据隐私保护
- 数字银行
- 金融监管影响
- 监管科技/机器人顾问应用
- 虚拟货币
随着金融科技的兴起,金融服务格局正在发生变化,本所经验丰富的律师们站在行业发展的最前沿,引导您走好未来的每一步。
体育
体育业务部依托谢尔曼•思特灵部署在全球各主要金融中心的完全一体化运作的办公室和专业团队的支持,向客户提供全领域服务。对于体育业务部的成功至为关键的是,本所跨地区、跨行业及跨法律专业的具有无可比拟广度的经验可为客户带来无价的增值。
体育业务部代表各类客户经办与职业体育和业余体育相关的事项,其中包括连锁体育经营机构、金融机构、运动员、体育组织和管理机构。这支业务部的独特优势是,能够在同一支团队内部为客户处理各领域的问题,如并购、税务、监管、薪酬、银行和结构性融资、诉讼、房地产、知识产权、项目开发及融资。