Matthew S. Lovell
Professional Profile
Matthew Lovell is a partner in Kirkland's Chicago intellectual property group. Matthew has counseled clients in the licensing and transfer of intellectual property, information technology and software development outsourcing, and general corporate and transactional intellectual property matters. His substantive areas of knowledge include intellectual property law (copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, and rights of publicity), general corporate law, contract law, and intellectual property aspects of corporate transactions, bankruptcy and antitrust.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, Matthew served as a Teaching Fellow and Clinical Instructor at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, instructing students and assisting with research and pro bono legal projects involving the intersection of law, technology, digital content, and related public policy.
Representative Matters
Counsel to a national retail chain in connection with multiple rights licensing agreements for custom apparel featuring licensed properties from third party licensors. Experiences included negotiating and drafting of license agreements and counseling client with respect to various aspects of the transactions and the client's overall licensing approach.
Counsel to a Fortune 100 company in a global sourcing initiative for a variety of business processes to be performed by offshore service providers. Experiences included counseling the client with respect to the request for proposal process, assessing service provider responses and proposals, drafting and negotiating master agreements and statements of work with service providers for the outsourced processes.
Counsel to a non-profit organization in connection with licensing and merchandising related to works of art commissioned by the organization and in which the organization has rights. Experiences include drafting and negotiating license and merchandising agreements and general counseling related to various aspects of exercising licensed rights.
Counsel to a Fortune 500 company in an enterprise resource planning systems transaction for the development and implementation of a $100 million customer relationship management and supply chain management system. Experiences included counseling the client with respect to managing the development and implementation process with outside consultants and vendors, drafting and negotiating a master agreement with the primary consultant providing services related to the system and drafting and negotiating statements of work and engagement letters with various consultants.
Counsel to a software development firm in a transaction regarding the development of a knowledge management system for a global law firm. Experiences included counseling the client with respect to the spin-off from the client of a development unit to develop and support the knowledge management system going forward and negotiating and drafting an agreement transferring ownership of the software product and a license agreement related to a commercially-available component of the knowledge management system.
Counsel to a large consulting firm in an information technology outsourcing transaction related to domestic and offshore hosting and supporting human resources and finance systems for a Fortune 500 company. Experiences included assisting the client in its request for proposal response, negotiating the master agreement and negotiating and drafting ancillary agreements and the statement of work.
Counsel to a leading healthcare information systems company in a large transaction involving the outsourcing of software development to an offshore service provider. Experiences included drafting and negotiating the term sheet, master services agreement and initial statement of work.
Counsel to both licensors and licensees in trademark and patent licensing agreements. Counsel to various private equity funds and other corporate clients in the transfer of licenses and other intellectual property associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and asset purchases. Counsel in multiple other transactional matters including negotiating and drafting a stock purchase agreement and related documents for a private equity investment in a technology company, assisting clients with corporate- and intellectual property-related aspects of bankruptcies, drafting and negotiating outsourcing agreements for customers and service providers, drafting and negotiating transition services agreements for clients involved in the purchase or sale of a business, and drafting asset transfer agreements and intellectual property assignments.
