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Practice Areas

Corporate and Governance:

Prometheus Partners’ Corporate Governance lawyers serve as tested crisis counselors to corporate clients in high-profile and high-risk situations. The team counsels on regulation, shareholder communication, best practices and more. Prometheus Partners’ corporate governance lawyers regularly counsel members of the board of directors, the board as a whole and senior executives on the full range of corporate governance issues that confront companies and their leadership.

Emerging Companies:

Our startup-focused, practice provides advice on tactical approaches to companies, from incubation to their strategic exit and future growth opportunities. Our lawyers, who work intimately with founders in technology, are experts in the emerging space. They bring forth their resources, including deep-rooted relationships with venture capitalists and angel investors, as well as critical insight into this rapidly evolving and increasingly competitive marketplace.

Intellectual Property Transactions:

As the most valuable corporate assets become increasingly intangible, the importance of identifying and solving intellectual property-related issues arising in complex corporate transactions becomes ever more essential. Prometheus Partners’ lawyers counsel clients on intellectual property (IP) issues arising in all types of corporate and financial transactions.

Entertainment:

Prometheus Partners provides independent production companies, producers, screenwriters, composers and recording artists with proactive counsel that enhances positioning for both transactional matters and litigation issues. We develop intimate relationships with our entertainment clients to insure effective counsel spanning the full spectrum of entertainment properties commercialization. Whether crafting and negotiating talent agreements, licensing agreements, production agreements, distribution agreements or financing agreements our ultimate goal is to insure that clients effectively leverage their properties in a manner that maximizes economic potential and financial return. In addition, our transactional lawyers consistently involve our litigation team at the inception of any deal to proactively address – and reduce the probability of – disputes that relate to origination, ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

Supply Chain Participant & Technology Transactions:

Many of our targeted clients derive the vast majority of their revenue as supply chain participants. We have significant experience structuring and negotiating development and supply agreements with the world’s largest consumer electronics companies in a manner that reflects both equity and calibrated risk allocation while maximizing revenue generation opportunities. Our representative transactions have ranged in size from $2 million to several billion in total contract value.

Component suppliers frequently fail to identify – or strategically manufacture – leverage that will level the negotiation playing field with critically important, but significantly larger, customers. As a result, component suppliers often accept deal terms that – unnecessarily – place disproportionate risk on the supplier, dramatically reduce profit margins and force the supplier to relinquish valuable intellectual property rights that are the source of long-term differentiation, competitive advantage and profit. As we have structured multiple billion dollar component supplier deals, we are particularly adept in formulating strategies that provide suppliers with fair – and profitable – supply deals.

Business Litigation and Counseling:

We have extensive experience advising on large-scale, bet-the-company cases, and Prometheus lawyers are widely recognized for their ability to represent clients on their most critical litigation issues. The firm can rapidly assemble a focused, integrated and efficient team to address all important aspects of a client’s problems. Our business litigation attorneys represent companies in a broad spectrum of commercial matters, including disputes with competitors, vendors, customers business partners are more:

    • Anti-Bribery and FCPA Defense and Compliance
    • Appellate Litigation and Legal Issues
    • Class Action Litigation
    • Consumer Financial Services Enforcement and Litigation
    • Employment Law
    • Government Enforcement and White Collar Crime
    • Mass Torts and Consumer Litigation
    • Patent and Other Complex Intellectual Property Litigation

Consumer Regulatory & Privacy:

The firm’s consumer regulatory and privacy attorneys were among the first in the nation to focus on privacy and information governance as a discrete and specialized practice.

White Collar and Corporate Investigations:

The mere announcement that a public company is being investigated can deeply affect its business, often with broad and unfortunate consequences for shareholders, executives and employees. With decades of experience, multi-jurisdictional expertise, and a reputation for toughness and integrity, Prometheus Partners’ lawyers are strongly positioned to guide clients through today’s challenging criminal law and regulatory enforcement environment.