Bio

Spencer Glende is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Salt Lake City office and is a member of the firm’s Technology & IP Transactions practice and Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice. Spencer counsels clients on transactions to develop, acquire, and commercialize products, services, and intellectual property in technology-centric industries. Spencer has extensive experience structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements, technology development agreements and strategic transactions, including collaborations, intellectual property licenses, and channel-partner agreements for software, life sciences, and other technology companies. He also manages the intellectual property aspects of significant corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Spencer has over twenty years of technology-transactions experience representing startups, mid-size firms, and top-tier technology companies worldwide, with particular focus on Silicon Valley and the Mountain West. Spencer was an editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and a recipient of the Boalt Hall Fellowship.