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Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP
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Jesse Birbach provides pragmatic, business-driven legal advice to early-stage technology companies that are often disadvantaged by unequal bargaining power. He specializes in product counselling, strategic alliances, data privacy, licensing and commercialization of intellectual property and technology assets. Additionally, Jesse advises venture capitalists and companies on intellectual property and technology aspects of venture capital financings as well as merger and acquisition activities. His diverse industry experience includes enterprise software/SaaS, social media, payments technology, technical hardware, data analytics, consumer products, mobile applications, video games, unmanned aerial vehicles, submarines, and biotechnology. He assists clients with website and application terms and conditions and privacy policies, end user license agreements, support and maintenance agreements, SaaS offerings, promotion and marketing agreements, collaboration and development agreements, distribution agreements, clinical research organization agreements, evaluation and beta testing agreements, and a variety of other in- and out-licensing deals.