Gil Solomon & Co.

Gil Solomon & Co. is a boutique law firm with unique expertise in the high-tech, technology, and business sectors. The firm represents public companies, Fortune 500 companies, startups, entrepreneurs, investors, non-profits, and small businesses. The firm provides its clients with legal representation across a wide range of practice areas, including high-tech, commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, and life sciences. The firm is known for its innovative, dynamic, and approachable service model, offering responsive and caring legal counsel while demonstrating both legal acumen and deep technological understanding. The firm specializes in simplifying complex transactions and leading efficient negotiations, always focusing on the critical elements of each deal.

Practice Areas

Commercial Law
The firm advises its diverse clientele on a wide array of commercial transactions, including negotiation and drafting of transaction documents. The firm provides ongoing legal support throughout all stages of a company’s lifecycle – from establishment and incorporation, through product development, marketing, and distribution, to the negotiation of strategic and routine deals. The firm’s attorneys possess extensive experience in all aspects of business operations and routinely handle matters such as legal structuring, partnership arrangements, employee and contractor engagement, marketing and distribution transactions, joint ventures, licensing agreements, resale of products or software, interactions with government and municipal authorities, as well as the acquisition or sale of commercial activities and franchise arrangements. Our clients span a variety of industries including software, medical devices, life sciences, blockchain and cryptocurrency, construction, infrastructure, gaming, consumer products, defense, media, fintech, and financial services.

High-Tech and Venture Capital
The firm is recognized as one of the most prominent, innovative and forward thinking in the country, especially in connection with any matters related to technology, the high-tech and venture capital industries. The firm’s services in connection with technology, high-tech and venture capital include representing high-tech and startup companies, investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and founders in a broad range of matters, including investment rounds, executive hiring and incentive plans, commercial transactions, corporate partnerships, joint ventures, intellectual property deals, and licensing agreements. Our primary goal is to position companies and ventures for either a successful exit or long-term growth, while ensuring legal certainty and business alignment. The firm’s deep technological insight allows it to quickly grasp client objectives and challenges and deliver fully tailored legal solutions that align with each client’s business and technical needs.

Mergers & Acquisitions
The firm’s services in connection with mergers and acquisitions are built on extensive experience and skill in all aspects of M&A transactions. The firm advises clients on structuring deals, managing negotiations, preparing due diligence and investor materials, handling regulatory submissions, and obtaining required approvals. The firm provides comprehensive legal support from deal inception through to closing, transition, and post-transaction integration. It advises acquiring companies, target companies, and investors across a broad range of transactions, including share and asset purchases, mergers, joint ventures, and corporate reorganizations.

Intellectual Property
The firm’s services in connection with intellectual property include advising ventures, entrepreneurs, software and engineering companies, technology firms, investors, and service providers on all matters relating to intellectual property and technology. The firm handles the intellectual property aspects of various transactions, including investments, mergers and acquisitions, and commercialization arrangements such as licensing, asset sales, technology collaborations, commercialization of intellectual property developed by entrepreneurs employed at academic or medical institutions, and marketing, distribution, and re-sale of intellectual property and technology. Our services also include ongoing support related to copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, and open-source software. Given the firm’s strong focus on high-tech companies, whose main asset is often their intellectual property, the firm has developed deep expertise in protecting clients’ intellectual property and avoiding or resolving related disputes swiftly and efficiently.

Life Sciences & Healthcare
The firm’s services in connection with life sciences include the representation of companies, entrepreneurs, and investors in the healthcare, medical device, and life sciences sectors across a wide range of legal matters. This includes strategic licensing transactions, development, marketing, and distribution agreements, clinical trial agreements and processes, material transfer and manufacturing agreements, and more. The firm also offers legal guidance on privacy and data protection issues related to medical research and development, including data anonymization, cross-border transfers, and the use of personal data for clinical studies.