Industrial Services IP Transfer & Licensing: An Independent Sponsor's Counsel
Securities and M&A counsel for independent sponsors structuring industrial services transactions, from LOI to close to the capital markets that open up afterward.
IP Transfer & Licensing on industrial services deals is one of those workstreams that looks routine on a checklist and decides outcomes in practice.
The typical industrial services platform sits at $10M to $130M EV with EBITDA in the $3M to $22M range. The thesis runs on regional consolidation of plant maintenance, specialty contracting, or rentals. An EMR over 1.0 will cost you a half-turn at close unless you fix the story upfront.
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 industrial services, layer in MSA renewal calendar mapped pre-LOI 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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Bring the industrial services deal. Get IP Transfer & Licensing done right.
Direct counsel from a securities and M&A attorney with billions in structured transactions, the independent-sponsor-native playbook, and the capital markets network that opens up post-close.