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Whitmore & Hale LLP · Est. 2004 · New York

Counsel for companies
that build things.

M&A Litigation Employment Venture Intellectual Property Data & privacy Commercial
M&A Litigation Employment Venture Intellectual Property Data & privacy Commercial

We represent engineering-led companies, from first seed to public listing, in the legal work that matters at each stage — and the legal work that matters most after something goes wrong. Our partners have tried cases at every federal bench from the Southern District of New York to the Ninth Circuit. Our transactional side has closed over $18B in M&A.

Practice

Four disciplines.

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Corporate & M&A

Founding documents, financing rounds, scheduled exits, post-close disputes. From the Series A to the LOI.

Litigation & disputes

Complex commercial litigation in state, federal, and arbitral forums. We try the cases that need trying.

Employment & benefits

Stock plans, executive terms, separations, investigations. The kind of advice you want before something goes wrong.

Intellectual property

Patent portfolios, trademark prosecution, trade secret protection, IP-driven licensing and M&A.

Representative matters

A few of the cases we've closed.

2024

$2.1B acquisition of Helios Robotics

Lead buy-side counsel on a contested cross-border transaction involving three regulatory regimes and a month-long exclusivity sprint.

2023

Patent trial · E.D. Texas

Obtained defense verdict on all four asserted claims after a two-week jury trial in a $410M patent infringement action.

2023

Series E · $340M

Represented the company in a priced round led by Sequoia Heritage with participation from Tiger Global, ICONIQ, and six existing investors.

2022

Executive departure · confidential

Negotiated separation package and non-disparagement framework on behalf of a C-suite client leaving a publicly-traded company.

A conversation is a conflict check, not a commitment.

Fifteen-minute initial call. We either take the matter, refer you to firms who should, or tell you plainly you don't need a lawyer yet.

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