Jeff Dodd has more than 40 years' experience helping companies with their corporate, securities, intellectual property and technology transactions. His clients range in size from Fortune 50 companies to emerging businesses.Jeff has extensive corporate, securities and corporate finance experience, including public and private securities offerings, merger and acquisition transactions, joint ventures, corporate partnering and similar arrangements, private debt and equity financing transactions (including private equity and venture capital), and regulatory, governance and compliance matters.Jeff advises clients concerning their IP strategy and monetization programs, licensing and joint venture transactions and data security, privacy and protection issues. Jeff is the co-author of Modern Licensing Law with University of Houston Law Center Professor and former Dean, the late Ray Nimmer. The treatise covers all aspects of intellectual property licensing and has become one of the industry's most respected publications on the topic. He also became co-author of Drafting Effective Contracts also with Professor Nimmer. Jeff is routinely asked to write, speak and present on various topics.Jeff continues to serve his alma mater as a University of Houston Honors College Advisory Board Member. He is also a past President and former board member of the University of Houston Law Foundation. He is a lifetime fellow in both the Texas Bar Foundation and Houston Bar Foundation.

Bar Admissions
Texas

Education
JD, University of Houston Law Center, summa cum laude, 1979

BA, University of Houston, magna cum laude, 1976

Significant Accomplishments
Corporate, Securities and Corporate Finance: experience in diverse domestic and international corporate transactions, including:

representing various participants in public and private merger and acquisition transactions

representing issuers and underwriters (and investment bankers) in connection with public and private securities offerings

representing private equity, venture capital and other investment groups or funds, as well as portfolio companies in structuring, documenting and negotiating investment arrangements

structuring, negotiating and documenting the formation of private equity, venture capital and hedge funds

advising regulated entities (including broker/dealers and investment advisers) as to regulatory and compliance matters

structuring, negotiating and documenting joint venture, corporate partnering and similar arrangements

Intellectual Property, Technology, Data Security, Electronic Commerce and Commercialization: extensive experience in a variety of domestic and international intellectual property, information, and business process-related transactions, including

representing various parties in structuring, negotiating, enforcing, and unwinding licensing transactions, domestic and international, in numerous industries, including energy, computer technology, biotechnology

negotiating, enforcing and unwinding ERP and outsourcing arrangements

advising domestic and international clients on data protection, security breach, security and privacy laws and devising compliance strategies

structuring, negotiating, documenting and unwinding strategic ventures and alliances where intellectual property is the core asset

planning, design and implementation of electronic commerce and trading strategies and arrangements, domestic and international

counseling, structuring, negotiating, and documenting intellectual property and information, acquisition, commercialization transactions

Acquisition of Majority Stake in PCS Holding BV

Series Seed Financing of Gemist Inc.

"The Need for a Global Framework for Knowledge Transactions: Cross-Border Licensing and Enforcement," Trade in Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Trade and Development in a Transformed Global Economy World Trade Organization, World Trade Organization

Audit Response Letters: Skirmishes at the Boundaries Set by the Treaty, 32 Corporate Counsel Review 1

Corporate Transparency Act beneficial ownership reporting is here, Texas Bar Blog

Middle East Technology Market Needs Intelligent Energy Law, Pipeline Oil & Gas Magazine

Modern Licensing Law, 2023 ed., Thomson Reuters

The Corporate Transparency Act

The World Law Group Launches Global Guide to Data Breach Notifications and Companion Website

Treasury Department Issues Final Rule on Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements Under the Corporate Transparency Act, The Journal of Federal Agency Action, Volume 1, No. 2

Tribute to Ray Nimmer, 56 HOUS. L. REV. 253