How big is our practice group?
50 lawyers (6 partners, 1 counsel and 43 associates).

Christine Santariga (Boston College Law School '06), works on IP transactions that include licensing, services, outsourcing, and strategic agreements. She also advises clients on a wide variety of privacy and information security compliance issues. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Megan Baca (Harvard Law School '07) focuses primarily on intellectual property transactions in the technology and life sciences industries. Her practice includes a mix of general corporate work and intellectual property matters, including licensing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transaction. She also advises clients on media, branding, advertising, marketing and promotion matters, including in the digital and social media spaces. She also is a member of the data privacy and security group and the life sciences group.

What we do?
The IP Transactions Practice Group at Ropes & Gray represents a broad range of industry leaders in intellectual property and technology-centric transactions that have a transformative impact on their businesses. We help our private equity, financial institutions, technology, life science, media, publishing, and health care clients in transactions designed to generate financing, monetize IP assets, structure and restructure their IP portfolios, penetrate markets, and ensure the success of their technology procurement and sourcing arrangements.

Engineering Practice
The lawyers and technical specialists of Ropes & Gray’s IP Technology (Engineering) Group combine top caliber engineering expertise, industry experience, business savvy and legal talent to build value for their clients.  These highly skilled professionals focus on engineering technology-based corporate transactions, including licensing, research and development collaborations, strategic commercial partnerships, joint ventures, technology transfers, product development, supply and distribution relationships and diligence support for mergers and acquisitions.  They service local, regional and global clients with cutting-edge technologies covering a vast array of industries, including computers and software, electronics, financial services, internet and e-commerce, photonics, mechanical devices, nanotechnology, semiconductor processing and devices, telecommunications and transportation.

Outsourcing Practice
The IP Transactional Group at Ropes & Gray plays a pivotal role in the firm’s robust outsourcing practice.  With highly experienced and skilled lawyers across the full spectrum of commercial sourcing activities, ranging from information technology outsourcing to business process outsourcing to global supply management and procurement activities, Ropes & Gray advises global clients operating across a wide range of industries in connection with their most challenging commercial sourcing relationships.  The firm provides the expertise necessary for clients to structure winning proposals, enter into operationally and financially beneficial relationships, and, where necessary, restructure existing relationships to take advantage of changing business and market conditions.

Life Sciences Practice
Ropes & Gray's IP Transactions practice represents a broad range of leaders in the life sciences industry, with clients ranging from early stage companies to public companies and public and private research institutions. We help our clients in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device spaces enter into strategic licensing, development, manufacturing and supply arrangements and advise them in connection with mergers, acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, partnerships and other strategic investments and relationships in addition to general business matters. We help our clients in the life sciences industry achieve success by supporting them with our expertise in a wide variety of areas, including corporate governance, securities, executive compensation and FDA regulatory matters. We also perform patent/intellectual property due diligence for our venture capital and investment banking clients.

Privacy and Data Security Practice
In our privacy and data security practice, we help our clients build and manage businesses that comply with the ever-expanding privacy regulations in the United States and abroad. We also help our clients assess and minimize risk involving data.

Ryan Colgan (Northwestern University School of Law ’01) has a diverse background in IP transactional work, including corporate mergers, acquisitions, and sell-offs, debt financing and IP structuring, trademark counseling, licensing, and other IP related agreements.  Recently he has been involved in several clothing and apparel deals including the acquisition of J Crew and Donald J Pliner.  He is also a member of the firm’s Sports Law group and has assisted clients with copyright matters, publishing agreements, appearance agreements, broadcasting contracts, and other sports and entertainment related issues.

• Represented American Express in crafting an ultra-complex marketing alliances and collaboration agreements in tandem with its strategic investment in Concur Technologies Inc, the world’s leading provider of end-to-end solutions that seamlessly unite online travel booking with automated expense reporting
  
  
• Tudor Investment Corporation relies on Ropes & Gray’s IP Transactional team to assist it with issues arising from technology development, management of proprietary computer based trading systems, joint ventures in technology based system stranding and other matters
  
  
• Represented Certicom Corporation, a Canadian corporation ("Certicom") in connection with the licensing of Certicom's patent portfolio related Certicom's industry-standard elliptic curve cryptography ("ECC") public-key technology to IBM.

• Represented Oscar de la Renta is assisting to analyze existing relationships and develop approaches to restructuring or ending unsatisfactory relationships.