Jeff Dodd has more than 40 years’ experience helping companies with their corporate, securities, intellectual property and technology transactions.
Jeff’s clients range in size from Fortune 50 companies to emerging businesses.
Jeff has extensive corporate, securities and corporate finance experience, including public and private securities offerings, merger and acquisition transactions, joint ventures, corporate partnering and similar arrangements, private debt and equity financing transactions (including private equity and venture capital), and regulatory, governance and compliance matters.
Jeff advises clients concerning their IP strategy and monetization programs, licensing and joint venture transactions and data security, privacy and protection issues. Jeff is the co-author of Modern Licensing Law with University of Houston Law Center Professor and former Dean, the late Ray Nimmer. The treatise covers all aspects of intellectual property licensing and has become one of the industry’s most respected publications on the topic. He also became co-author of Drafting Effective Contracts also with Professor Nimmer. Jeff is routinely asked to write, speak and present on various topics.
Jeff continues to serve his alma mater as a University of Houston Honors College Advisory Board Member. He is also a past President and former board member of the University of Houston Law Foundation. He is a lifetime fellow in both the Texas Bar Foundation and Houston Bar Foundation.
Experience
Corporate, Securities and Corporate Finance: experience in diverse domestic and international corporate transactions, including:
representing various participants in public and private merger and acquisition transactions
representing issuers and underwriters (and investment bankers) in connection with public and private securities offerings
representing private equity, venture capital and other investment groups or funds, as well as portfolio companies in structuring, documenting and negotiating investment arrangements
structuring, negotiating and documenting the formation of private equity, venture capital and hedge funds
advising regulated entities (including broker/dealers and investment advisers) as to regulatory and compliance matters
structuring, negotiating and documenting joint venture, corporate partnering and similar arrangements
Intellectual Property, Technology, Data Security, Electronic Commerce and Commercialization: extensive experience in a variety of domestic and international intellectual property, information, and business process-related transactions, including
representing various parties in structuring, negotiating, enforcing, and unwinding licensing transactions, domestic and international, in numerous industries, including energy, computer technology, biotechnology
negotiating, enforcing and unwinding ERP and outsourcing arrangements
advising domestic and international clients on data protection, security breach, security and privacy laws and devising compliance strategies
structuring, negotiating, documenting and unwinding strategic ventures and alliances where intellectual property is the core asset
planning, design and implementation of electronic commerce and trading strategies and arrangements, domestic and international
counseling, structuring, negotiating, and documenting intellectual property and information, acquisition, commercialization transactions
Memberships
Member
Houston Bar Association
Life Fellow
State Bar of Texas
Electronic Commerce Sub-Committee
Business Law Section
American Bar Association
Section on Business Law
Section on Intellectual Property Law
Forum Committee on Franchising
Licensing Executives Society
American Intellectual Property Law Association
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Past President and Board Member - University of Houston Law Foundation
Advisory Board Member - Honors College of the University of Houston
Fellow - Texas Bar Foundation, Houston Bar Foundation
Awards & Recognition
Ranked among IAM Global Leaders (2022-2024), Intellectual Asset Management
Highly Recommended for Patent Transactions in Texas (2012-2014, 2016-2023) in the IAM Patent 1000, Intellectual Asset Management
Named a Transactions Star (2021-2023), Trademark Star (2016-2023), and Patent Star (2016-2019) in the IP STARS Handbook, Managing Intellectual Property
Selected as Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law, Texas, The Best Lawyers in America, 2020.
Recognized as a Acritas Star for outstanding performance (2018)
Lawyer of the Year in Information Technology Law in Houston, Best Lawyers (2013 and 2016)
Who’s Who in Law, Intellectual Property, Houston Business Journal (2015)
Recipient, 2014 Distinguished Service Award, Institute of Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Houston Law Center
Recommended for Patents: Licensing (2017-2018, 2020), Copyright (2017-2019), Trademarks: Litigation (2018-2019), Trademarks: Non-Contentious (2018-2019), Patent: Litigation (Full Coverage) (2017), Patent: Prosecution (2017) and Outsourcing (2013-2014), Legal 500 United States
Named a “2012 BTI Client Service All-Star” by BTI Consulting Group
The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law and Information Technology Law (1999-2019, 2023-2024)
Profiled as one of the leading Technology (2005-2009) and Intellectual Property (2010-2018) lawyers in Texas, Chambers & Partners USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers
Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters (published in Texas Monthly) (2003-2005, 2011-2019)
AV Preeminent rating in Martindale-Hubbell
Insights
Events
Presenter, 2023 Licensing Law Update, 21th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Law Institute, June 1-2, 2023
Speaker, New Regulatory Developments With The Corporate Transparency Act, 20th Annual Choice, Governance & Acquisition of Entities Conference, Dallas, TX, May 2022
Speaker, The New Corporate Transparency Act: What You Need to Know, 19th Annual Advanced Business Law Course, Houston, TX, November 2021
Speaker, Corporate Transparency Act Developments, Houston Real Estate Lawyers Meeting, July 2021
Chapter Co-author, “The Need for a Global Framework for Knowledge Transactions: Cross-Border Licensing and Enforcement,” Trade in Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Trade and Development in a Transformed Global Economy World Trade Organization, World Trade Organization, February 2022
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