Bio

Arnold Brown clients benefit from his track record of success as a technology entrepreneur, in-house and outside counsel, and leader of technology standards-setting organizations. Before joining Seyfarth in 2022, Arnold worked in-house at various semiconductor firms, and counseled technology clients at two prominent Silicon Valley law firms. Arnold has represented technology clients in venture capital financings, IPOs, joint ventures, strategic investments, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as 1934 Act reporting for public company clients in more than a dozen significant financings or liquidity events. Arnold draws on his experience as the founder—and later, seller—of a venture-backed digital music company in order to help clients navigate complex intellectual property transactions. He handles patent sales and licensing, patent pooling, and joint IP licensing transactions for companies in the semiconductor, consumer electronics, communications, and software industries. Arnold has extensive experience counseling technology standards development organizations and companies participating in technology standards in areas of corporate governance, transactions, operations, antitrust compliance, trademark strategy, IP policies, patent pool fostering, and regulatory issues. As a former chair of the HDMI Forum—the standards group responsible for HDMI connectivity—Arnold has a deep understanding of how technology standards are developed and applied. Throughout his career, he has represented companies in connection with more than 20 technology standards. Arnold leads the firm’s representation of technology consortia, alliances and open source software groups for matters including, corporate governance, intellectual property and technology transactions. Outside of his practice, Arnold loves hiking, coaching lacrosse, playing basketball with his son, coding, and writing fiction.