Healthcare Services Deals: IP Transfer & Licensing Done Right
Securities and M&A counsel for independent sponsors structuring healthcare services transactions, from LOI to close to the capital markets that open up afterward.
IP Transfer & Licensing on healthcare services deals is one of those workstreams that looks routine on a checklist and decides outcomes in practice.
The typical healthcare services platform sits at $15M to $120M EV with EBITDA in the $3M to $20M range. The thesis runs on roll-up of physician practices and ancillary service lines. Most off-market healthcare deals come through advisors who have seen the structure before. Have one in your call list.
How IP Transfer & Licensing actually gets structured.
Identify all IP, including informal employee-inventor work product.
Pull assignments and works-for-hire records, with gaps remediated pre-close.
Address open-source license compliance in any software stack.
Plan trademark assignment recordation and continuation filings.
In healthcare services, layer in PC/MSO structuring as part of the IP Transfer & Licensing workstream.
Assuming the company owns its IP because the website says so. Without paper, ownership is a hope.
"Every piece of IP in the deal needs a chain of title. Find the gaps before the buyer's counsel does."Jason Powell · IP Transfer & Licensing
The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.
After close, the call list for refinancing, recapitalization, and growth equity gets short and known. Jason carries that list.
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An LOI on the desk, a healthcare services target, and a IP Transfer & Licensing question worth a real conversation.
Twenty minutes of practitioner-grade input from a securities attorney whose first move is to read the deal, not the engagement letter.