Legal services provided by us include determining the appropriate business entity, jurisdiction and taxation status,
structuring and formation of new entities, foreign investments, foreign collaborations, joint ventures, and technology absorption, setting up of branch offices, liaison offices or project offices, tax planning,
developing and documenting shareholder agreements, creating executive employment agreements that attract and retain key leadership, identifying and securing intellectual property via trademarks, patents and copyright protection, creating business financing strategies, advising clients for ongoing business needs and transactions, distributorships, sales agreements, stockholders» buy - sell agreements, franchise agreements, intellectual property and
license agreements, outsourcing agreements,
licensing agreements and technology transfers, including hardware, software and other services and products, trade practices, advertising and promotions.
The partners devised a convoluted corporate
structure, forming a new American company, owned almost entirely by Mr. Mercer, with a
license to the psychographics platform
developed by Mr. Wylie's team, according to company documents.
Standard & Poor's, New York • NY 1998 — 2004 Director of Business Development Performed dual roles of business development and product management oversight in a
developing investment advisory business focused on expanding global sales pipeline for alternative investment products, quantitative analytics, asset allocation and intellectual property
licensing for
structured derivative products.
Created by Shiller and Karl Case, an economics professor at Wellesley, the index is
licensed exclusively to Macromarkets LLC for «
developing,
structuring and trading financial instruments,» says the Macromarkets Web site.