Areas of Practice

Mr. Charkoudian represents private and public companies and private equity and venture capital firms in a wide range of industries, including software, Internet, digital media, social networking, virtual worlds, social gaming, advertising, entertainment, clean technologies, hardware, medical devices, communications and networking equipment, financial services, and information services. He has extensive experience structuring and negotiating licenses, strategic collaborations, joint ventures and other technology transfer transactions involving all types of technology and intellectual property.

Mr. Charkoudian specializes in structuring the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, strategic alliances and other corporate transactions, as well as designing and implementing practical intellectual property due diligence approaches in order to discover and manage intellectual property related risks in transactions.

Mr. Charkoudian’s representative transactions include:

• MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, with respect to intellectual property and technology matters in its acquisition of Harmonix Music Systems, developer of the hits Guitar Hero, Rock Band and other music gaming titles.
• CCP Games (maker of the MMOG EVE Online) in intellectual property and technology matters, in connection with its merger with White Wolf Publishing, the world’s second-largest developer of offline role-playing, strategy and collectable card...more »

Mr. Charkoudian represents private and public companies and private equity and venture capital firms in a wide range of industries, including software, Internet, digital media, social networking, virtual worlds, social gaming, advertising, entertainment, clean technologies, hardware, medical devices, communications and networking equipment, financial services, and information services. He has extensive experience structuring and negotiating licenses, strategic collaborations, joint ventures and other technology transfer transactions involving all types of technology and intellectual property.

Mr. Charkoudian specializes in structuring the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, strategic alliances and other corporate transactions, as well as designing and implementing practical intellectual property due diligence approaches in order to discover and manage intellectual property related risks in transactions.

Mr. Charkoudian’s representative transactions include:

• MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, with respect to intellectual property and technology matters in its acquisition of Harmonix Music Systems, developer of the hits Guitar Hero, Rock Band and other music gaming titles.
• CCP Games (maker of the MMOG EVE Online) in intellectual property and technology matters, in connection with its merger with White Wolf Publishing, the world’s second-largest developer of offline role-playing, strategy and collectable card games.
• Inverness Medical Innovations Inc., with respect to intellectual property and technology matters in connection with a 50/50 joint venture with The Procter & Gamble Company for existing and to-be-developed consumer diagnostic products.
• Inverness Medical Innovations Inc., in intellectual property and technology matters related to its acquisition of ACON Laboratories Inc.’s manufacturing facility in Hangzhou, China and its lateral flow immunoassay business in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Israel, Australia, Japan and New Zealand.
• Haemonetics Corporation, in connection with a collaboration and license agreement with Arryx, Inc. under which Haemonetics was licensed to use Arryx’s optical trapping technology to develop applications for human healthcare applications. Represented Haemonetics in its later acquisition of Arryx.
• Vicor Corporation, in connection with a license to Sony Corporation that allows Sony to design and manufacture power converters, using Vicor’s V-I Chip technology and Factorized Power Architecture, for use and sale as part of Sony’s products.
• TA Associates, regarding intellectual property and technology matters in its investment in Mythic Entertainment, the developer of MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot.