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KNOWING YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS.

With an understanding of the intersection of technology and business, our interdisciplinary team provides legal services in:

• Finance and capital raising• IP strategy, prosecution, and litigation• Privacy and data security• Strategic collaborations and licensing• Mergers and acquisitions

We are a law firm where highly-seasoned attorneys bring service to you in a personal and uncomplicated way. Our focus is on expertise, not legalese, and every part of our service is designed to meet your individual needs while delivering the best possible outcome. This is the Nutter Experience, and in a world where one law firm can seem like the next, we believe that we truly stand out. We look forward to working with you.

155 Seaport Blvd / Boston, MA 02210 / 617.439.2000 / nutter.com

WELCOME TO NUTTER

WHY NUTTERClients tell us they choose Nutter so they can partner with lawyers who take a client-centric approach to solving their complex legal challenges. Nutter is a nationally-ranked law firm that is just as interested in your business as you are, and we accomplish this by remaining true to four guiding principles:

• Put integrity first by relentlessly upholding the highest standards at all times and at every touchpoint with all attorneys

• Offer expertise across the board through an array of practice areas staffed with experienced attorneys with proven success

• Provide clients with a personalized approach while being mindful of and most efficient with time, ensuring high-value service delivery

• Dig deep to understand the context of a client’s business to better accommodate risk tolerance and other nuances of potential outcomes

EXPERTISE THAT GETS NOTICEDOur commitment to building a culture of legal excellence has led to top industry accolades, including:

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business recognized Nutter for excellence in providing legal services to its clients in numerous practice areas. The firm was selected as a state leader in the categories of Banking & Finance: Corporate & Regulatory, Environment, Labor & Employment, Litigation, and Real Estate.

U.S. News & World Report/Best Lawyers selected Nutter as a top national firm in 2018 “Best Law Firms” survey.

MARKET-LEADING CLIENTS AND INDUSTRY EXPERTISEFrom our headquarters in Boston’s Innovation District, we represent global, national and regional companies and organizations. Our roster of clients includes market-leading corporations and financial institutions, research universities, emerging companies, investors, developers, foundations and families.

Our expertise resides across a broad range of industries, including:

• Banking and Financial Services• Education and Nonprofits• Emerging Companies• Energy• Food and Beverage• Government Agencies and

Municipalities• Health Care

• Life Sciences• Manufacturing• Medical Devices• Pharmaceuticals• Philanthropy• Private Equity and

Venture Capital• Private Wealth

• Real Estate• Retail and

Consumer Products• Software • Technology


COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIONWe strive to ensure that traditionally underrepresented groups work at every level of our firm, which has gone a long way toward advancing our position to build an inclusive legal community, reflective of the diverse populations that we all serve.

Nutter's efforts are led by its Diversity and Inclusion Committee, whose focus includes the following:

• Setting firm-wide expectations for an inclusive culture

• Supporting recruitment and retention efforts that focus on traditionally underrepresented groups

• Learning from and applying best practices of other institutions and industries

• Measuring the firm’s successes and shortcomings

• Challenging the status quo when necessary

• Communicating the firm’s mission, the action it requires, and the success it promises

Our current activities continue Nutter’s commitment to recruiting and retaining talented and qualified people, regardless of race, gender, color, age, disability, religion, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, or marital or parental status.

COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY AND PRO BONOAt Nutter, we are committed to social justice and progressive social causes. We are proud to be a founding member and challenge participant in the Pro Bono Institute’s Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge. Law firms that become Signatories to the Challenge acknowledge their institutional, firm-wide commitment to provide legal services to low income and disadvantaged individuals and families and non-profit groups. Each year, Nutter proudly honors its commitment to spend three percent of the firm’s paying client billable hours on pro bono work. Recent projects include our initiative with Dell EMC to take on cases for Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and our work with the Civil Appeals Clinic's Pro Bono Program. Nutter attorneys also engage in a wide variety of civic, charitable, educational, social, and political efforts in the communities in which they live and work. They hold leadership roles in scores of non-profit organizations both locally and across the United States.

WELCOME TO NUTTER

A PROUD LEGACY

Nutter’s vision of professional excellence and dedicated client service has guided the firm since its co-founding in 1879 by Louis D. Brandeis, who went on to become one of the most influential justices to serve on the United States Supreme Court. The legacy of Brandeis—his deep commitment to clients, to pro bono service and the creation of a just society—continues as a source of pride and inspiration for us today.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY


Intellectual property assets are often the cornerstone to a client’s success—and survival. Nutter’s ability to protect, enhance, leverage or capitalize on those assets can help clients to change the world, especially in life sciences and technology. It is a big reason why we have a passion for doing what we do.

ACCOLADES

Ranked in Best Lawyers in America 2018 for Litigation—Intellectual Property and Patent Law

Named as a “Go To” patent counsel in IP Law & Business

Named as a “Go To” patent counsel in Corporate Counsel magazine

OUR TEAMOur attorneys and technical specialists are experienced in:

Federal and state laws that protect intellectual property, such as the federal patent, trademark, and copyright statutes, and trade secret and unfair competition laws

Administrative procedures that are unique to intellectual property assets, including patent interferences and trademark oppositions

Litigating patent, trademark, and copyright disputes, as well as unfair practices, employment and confidentiality agreements, including non-competition and non-disclosure covenants

WHAT WE DO

We help clients to unlock the value of their IP, creating revenue streams from licensing and sales.

Clients also look to us for assistance in developing IP triage strategies, which can determine which IP assets should be protected, renewed, or bolstered and the ones that should be licensed, sold or abandoned for optimal return on investment.

We also perform IP docketing and management services for clients, ensuring that they do not miss important filing or renewal dates, and we monitor filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the “PTO”) for legally objectionable actions by competitors.

• Intellectual property due diligence

• IP litigation• International IP rights

• Patent infringement actions• Patent portfolio development

and counseling• Patent prosecution

• Trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets

• Technology licensing

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

ABOUT NUTTER Nutter is a Boston-based law firm that provides legal counsel to industry-leading companies, early stage entrepreneurs, institutions, foundations, and families, across the country and around the world. The firm’s lawyers are known for their client-centric approach and extensive experience in business and finance, intellectual property, litigation, real estate and land use, labor and employment, tax, and trusts and estates. Founded in 1879, Nutter is dedicated to helping companies prosper in today’s competitive business environment.


WHO WE REPRESENTGlobal corporations, mid-market and small companies, major universities and research institutions, inventors, investors and entrepreneurs turn to Nutter’s team for a wide variety of IP matters. We are educated and experienced in a range of industries, including:

• 3D Printing• Big data and artificial

intelligence (AI)• Biotechnology• Computer hardware and

software• Energy (alternative and

traditional)

• Financial services, including banking, investment banking and insurance

• Food and beverage• Healthcare technology• Internet of Things (IoT)• Manufacturing, wholesaling

and retailing

• Medical devices• Optics and laser technology• Pharmaceuticals, including

small molecules and biologics• Specialty chemicals

COMMITMENT TO CLIENT SERVICE

Nutter’s commitment to providing value for the money invested in our services means that we work to understand every client’s business and how our efforts as legal counselors and advocates can help that business. We constantly refine our own processes and maximize our efficiency in order to avoid wasted steps and duplication of efforts. In addition, we staff our projects leanly, often using just one partner and one associate on a task. The partner-to-associate ratio at Nutter enables significant partner-level attention on each project and superior associate training and satisfaction. Our firm has ranked highly in those categories in national surveys.

In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, the founders of our firm, published “The Right to Privacy” in the Harvard Law Review. The article is credited with creating the doctrine of privacy law and has been hailed as one of the most influential law review articles ever. Nutter is proud of its place in the history of privacy law and remains at the forefront of this cutting-edge area.


PRIVACY AND DATA SECURITY

WHAT WE DOWe work closely with our clients, immersing ourselves in their business so that we can provide the best possible value and strategic guidance. This approach allows our clients to stay focused on core business activities, minimize potential risks, and respond effectively to data security incidents. Our attorneys have an exceptional track record in a broad array of privacy and data security matters, ranging from compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and banking regulations, to preparation for and responses to data breaches.

CYBER INCIDENT RESPONSE AND DATA BREACHESCyberattacks and other types of data breaches are becoming increasingly common and can be devastating for businesses. They present a minefield of technical, legal, and public relations challenges. We have extensive experience in investigating network intrusions, hacking, cyber extortion, and other types of data breaches. We help clients coordinate with regulatory authorities, meet public disclosure requirements, evaluate remedial measures, and defend against civil litigation or government enforcement actions.

CYBERSECURITY ASSESSMENTS AND INCIDENT RESPONSE PLANNINGOur experience in advising clients in the wake of cyberattacks gives us key insights in advising clients on how to mitigate cyber risks. Our team is skilled in its ability to understand our client’s unique business needs and to work with their IT and security professionals to assess their legal obligations and help guide their decision-making in assessing, seeking to prevent, and preparing for cyberattacks. We specialize in working with cybersecurity vendors, digital forensic experts, and penetration testers to help draft and test defensible security plans.

BOARD ADVISORYIn the wake of data breaches, regulators, litigants, and shareholders are increasingly asking, “Where was the board of directors?” Few boards of directors have the skills or experience to provide the necessary oversight for cyber risk issues. Our team is uniquely positioned to advise boards of directors on how to structure cybersecurity governance and how to fulfill their cybersecurity oversight obligations.

INSIDER THREATSThough headlines tend to focus our attention on data breaches caused by outside hackers, the majority of data breaches and intellectual property thefts are actually caused by insiders—employees, contractors, or customers who abuse their legitimate access to sensitive data. Our team is skilled in helping clients prepare for, investigate, and respond to insider incidents.


PRIVACY AND DATA SECURITYPRIVACY COMPLIANCE COUNSELINGPrivacy regulations in the U.S., Europe, and all over the world are rapidly changing. Our team is expert in advising companies dealing with privacy laws, including HIPAA, data breach notification statutes, and the European Union’s GDPR. We are skilled at asking the right questions, mapping and understanding the flow of sensitive data through an organization, spotting compliance issues, and drafting policies and recommended practices to safeguard data. We help clients develop training programs and website privacy policies, and represent clients when they face issues involving global compliance, cross-border data transfers, and compliance audits.

DIGITAL DATA AND LITIGATIONLitigation today inevitably raises complicated issues relating to digital data. In addition to the now routine issues around electronic discovery, litigants grapple with problems concerning, for example, rights to data stored in other countries, data in the cloud, or data accessed by third parties. This, in turn, can create extremely complicated conflicts of laws, pitting one country’s data protection regime against another country’s discovery requirements. Our deep knowledge of the relevant technical issues, combined with our legal skills, allow us to help clients navigating issues such as these at the intersection of law and technology.

OUR TEAMOur interdisciplinary Privacy and Data Security team has years of experience providing counsel, regulatory advice, and litigation services to businesses and institutions, and includes a Certified Information Privacy Professional (“CIPP”), the preeminent credential in the field.

We have the knowledge and experience to help businesses understand and comply with the evolving laws and standards that regulate the collection, use, sharing, and protection of personal data. In addition, we stay abreast of the latest developments in the industry by participating in organizations such as the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”).

The interdisciplinary nature of our team—comprised of transactional and litigation attorneys—makes Nutter adept at counseling clients across a broad range of industries on compliance with, and defending against, alleged violations of privacy and data security laws.

ABOUT NUTTER Nutter is a Boston-based law firm that provides legal counsel to industry-leading companies, early stage entrepreneurs, institutions, foundations, and families, across the country and around the world. The firm’s lawyers are known for their client-centric approach and extensive experience in business and finance, intellectual property, litigation, real estate and land use, labor and employment, tax, and trusts and estates. Founded in 1879, Nutter is dedicated to helping companies prosper in today’s competitive business environment.

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MEET THE NUTTER TEAM AT CONNECTED THINGS 2019


PARTNERINTELLECTUAL [email protected]

CO-CHAIRINTELLECTUAL [email protected]

PARTNER PRIVACY AND DATA [email protected]

PARTNERCORPORATE AND [email protected]

JOHN G. LOUGHNANE

STEVEN G. SAUNDERS

DAVID J. POWSNER

SETH P. BERMAN

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