Due Diligence

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Intellectual Property (IP) rights are commonly bought, sold or licensed as part of a corporate deal or transaction, and often represent a key element of a due diligence process.

Our team of specialist solicitors, patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys are able to provide a commercially valuable assessment of an IP portfolio, either as part of deal process or as a stand-alone ‘health-check’. This assessment can include a basic search, status check and a ‘red flag’ report, or a detailed review of the scope of protection, filing strategies, freedom to operate and ownership. In this way, we are able to stress test a portfolio to identify key strengths and weaknesses.

IP due diligence work may also involve reviewing IP-related licenses and agreements, assessing encumbrances on a company’s IP, checking ownership of IP rights, reviewing employment contracts for IP provisions, and assessing compliance with Open Source Software (OSS) license requirements.

Our team provides direct support to the CMS Corporate team, to ensure a seamless due diligence process.

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01/06/2022
CMS Next
What’s next? In a world of ever-ac­cel­er­at­ing change, stay­ing ahead of the curve and know­ing what’s next for your busi­ness or sec­tor is es­sen­tial.At CMS, we see ourselves not only as your leg­al ad­visers but also as your busi­ness part­ners. We work to­geth­er with you to not only re­solve cur­rent is­sues but to an­ti­cip­ate fu­ture chal­lenges and in­nov­ate to meet them.With our latest pub­lic­a­tion, CMS Next, our ex­perts will reg­u­larly of­fer you in­sights in­to and fresh per­spect­ives on a range of is­sues that busi­nesses have to deal with – from ESG agen­das to re­struc­tur­ing after the pan­dem­ic or fa­cing the di­git­al trans­form­a­tion. We will also share with you more about the work that we are do­ing for our cli­ents, help­ing them in­nov­ate, grow and mit­ig­ate risk.To be able to provide you with the best sup­port, we im­merse ourselves in your world to un­der­stand your leg­al needs and chal­lenges. However, it is equally im­port­ant that you know who we are and how we can work with you. So, we in­vite you to meet our ex­perts and catch a glimpse of what is hap­pen­ing in­side CMS.En­joy read­ing this pub­lic­a­tion, which we will up­date reg­u­larly with new con­tent.CMS Ex­ec­ut­ive Team