Chanda A. Rice
Professional Profile
Chanda Rice practices intellectual property law, focusing on corporate transactions, licensing, and counseling involving intellectual property and technology. Chanda's experience includes the negotiation and structuring of intellectual property purchases and sales, technology development and licensing agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, and the intellectual property and technology aspects of other corporate transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, private equity investments, and secured lending.
In addition, Chanda counsels clients on strategic intellectual property and technology matters, such as the development of strategies for the protection and exploitation of brands and technologies, management of trademark portfolios and the enforcement of intellectual property rights.
Chanda has worked with a wide range of clients in various industries, including public companies, private equity companies, and technology-driven businesses. Chanda also has litigation experience and has represented clients in patent infringement lawsuits and ITC actions.
Chanda has an active pro bono entertainment practice that regularly involves advising clients with respect to the legal aspects of the music and film industries, negotiation and structuring of related agreements and licenses, and trademark and copyright registrations.
Representative Matters
Software, Outsourcing and Commercial Transactions
Counsel to client in outsourcing of performance management for client's IT infrastructures.
Counsel to automotive parts manufacturer in outsourcing of development and supply of certain automotive parts.
Counsel to major shoe apparel client in agreement for supply of patented inserts and shoe soles.
Counsel to payment solution systems client in outsourcing of software development.
Counsel to software development company on application development agreement and license.
Counsel to protective equipment manufacturer in joint development agreement for technology related to antimicrobial coatings.
Counsel to various other licensors and licensees in software license agreements and technology-based consulting services agreements.
Trademark Counseling and Transactions
Counsel to various clients on trademark clearance, filing, prosecution and portfolio management.
Counsel to various clients on trademark coexistence agreements to settle litigation and overcome trademark office refusals during prosecution.
Counsel to non-profit cancer support services client in joint marketing of lapel pins with international hotel.
Counsel to Con Agra Foods, Inc. in acquisition and licensing of Marie Callender's trademarks and licensing of right of publicity for pot pies.
Counsel to various other licensors and licensees in trademark license agreements, trademark assignment agreements and collateralization of trademarks.
Corporate Transactions
Counsel to Molson Coors Brewing Company in its $3.5 billion acquisition of Starbev, an Eastern European brewing company.
Counsel to Bain Capital, Inc. in its investment in Apple Leisure Group, one of the largest vacation wholesale companies in the U.S.
Counsel to Gryphon Investors in its acquisition of Envision EMI, a leading provider of educational, leadership and career-focused programs.
Counsel to Kemet Electronics Corporation in its acquisition of Niotan Incorporated, a tantalum capacitor powder manufacturer.
Counsel to GSO Capital Partners on its financing solutions to companies.
Counsel to private equity clients in connection with various other mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of various portfolio companies.
Memberships & Affiliations
Co-Chair, Cabrini Green Legal Aid's Young Professionals Board
Marketing & Social Media Chair, Lawyers for the Creative Arts Associate Board
Other Distinctions
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Diversity Fellow, 2008
Prior Experience
Cabrini Green Legal Aid, PILI Fellow, 2009
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Summer Associate, 2008
Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Summer Law Clerk, 2007
Rotary International, Membership Programs Coordinator, 2003-2006
