DAVID is a partner and heads the Technology Group in our New York office. David specializes in the areas of intellectual property counseling, intellectual property transactions; U.S. and international corporate partnering; strategic alliances; joint ventures and spin-offs; technology acquisition and licensing; intellectual property strategy, counseling, protection and commercialization; as well as assisting with the intellectual property and technology aspects of venture capital financings, public offerings and mergers/acquisitions.

David represents start-up/emerging growth companies and multinational corporations in major corporate partnering/strategic alliance and/or licensing arrangements with many of the largest U.S. and international companies and major research universities and institutes. His practice focuses on a broad array of technologies, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, information technology, software, hardware, communications, e-commerce, internet, media, semiconductors, nanotechnology, RFID and photonics.

David’s software, hardware, communications and internet practice includes a number of areas of expertise, including healthcare information technology, financial and insurance services, network monitoring and security, internet search technologies, social networking, media, e-commerce, database search and storage systems, RFID technology, satellite communications hardware and software, and many other related fields. For such clients, he works on end user license, support and maintenance agreements; software as a service (SaaS) offerings; enterprise resource planning software licensing and implementation; advertising and marketing agreements; website terms and conditions and privacy policies; evaluation of use of open source software; and a variety of channel partner arrangements (such as reseller, value-added reseller, OEM and distribution arrangements).

In the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, David assists clients with strategic alliances; collaboration and development agreements; manufacturing and supply arrangements; agreements with clinical research organizations; clinical trial agreements; distribution agreements; feasibility studies; intellectual property acquisition and out licensing; and working with various delivery and testing platforms, to name a few.

David is a co-author of Corporate Partnering: Structuring and Negotiating Domestic and International Strategic Alliances and has also been a speaker on a variety of legal issues before the Massachusetts Software Council, including speaking on the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act ("UCITA") and has written articles on topics such as UCITA and Open Source licensing strategies. David has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Tulane Law School teaching a course on strategic partnering.

David received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. David holds a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, where he was an Associate Editor of The Catholic University Law Review. David is a member of the New York, Massachusetts, District of Columbia and Pennsylvania State Bars.