Technology Consulting
Business Counsel: Washington George focuses on representing small businesses and start-ups from fund-raising and financing, to partnership and general corporate representation. Often, we act as general counsel to our small business and start-up clients, providing advice ranging from setting up their business entities and protecting their assets to assessing risk and advising on strategy. Some of our clients have included Internet start-ups, physicians’ healthcare practices, fashion and beauty entrepreneurs, innovative hotels, and design firms.
Investment Funds (Private Equity and Hedge Funds). The firm has represented private equity and hedge funds in connection with all aspects of their businesses including structuring and organizing investment funds, drafting formation documents and partnership and investor agreements, and advising on financing.
For many businesses and individual artists, their intellectual property is their most important and valuable asset. We help clients develop strategies to protect and commercialize their intellectual property including trademarks, copyrights, publicity rights.
We secure clients trademarks and copyrights and manage both domestic and international trademark and copyright portfolios. We have structured and negotiated licensing agreements for clients including multimedia companies, music artists, photographers, and playwrights. We provide due diligence for transactions involving intellectual property assets. Our clients have included businesses and individuals in film, theater, music, and fashion.
Media & Technology
Our firm’s capabilities in both media and technology allow clients to develop, protect, and capitalize upon, their technology and online ventures. We work with our media and technology clients throughout all phases of the business life cycle, including initial development, securing intellectual property and technology rights, financings, and print, multimedia, and social media marketing campaigns. We structure and negotiate a wide range of agreements for both vendors and clients including website development agreements and policies, hosting, software as service, hardware, open source, and consulting agreements. We counsel clients on business strategies and on media related matters including rights of publicity, releases, social media and marketing campaigns, scripts and treatments, and distribution agreements.