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- Digital Transactions Teams
Covington’s Digital Transactions Teams help companies realize their strategies in the digital economy. Our customized, multi-disciplinary teams have significant experience with technology, outsourcing, media and content distribution agreements across a wide array of industries. As your business adapts to change we can create the innovative agreements you need.
Our deal experience from both the supplier and customer perspectives, combined with our regulatory and international experience and our collaborative culture allows us to negotiate win-win agreements on behalf of our clients. We excel at solving the legal challenges of commercializing new business models and providing fast, tailor-made contracts.
We customize our Digital Transactions Teams to meet the specific transaction at hand and augment them with lawyers with industry experience and technical backgrounds as needed, including data analytics, electrical engineering, computer science, biotechnology, life sciences, entertainment, media, communications, economics, finance, etc. We regularly deploy teams focused on:
- Electronics and information technology
- eHealth
- Fintech
- Film, television and media
- Music
- Sports
- Travel, leisure and hospitality
NBA in Live Virtual Reality Streaming with NextVR
We represented the NBA in a multi-year deal to stream live NBA games in virtual reality in a partnership with NextVR, which will become the official live virtual reality partner of the NBA. During the 2016-2017 season, live VR games will first be available to NBA League Pass subscribers, with single-game purchase opportunities to follow for all VR consumers as the NextVR app becomes available on new VR devices.
Representation of American Airlines
We represented the company in connection with a series of cloud, digital merchandising, e-commerce, music and content licensing, marketing and distribution transactions with companies such as Google, Sojern, ADARA, Oracle, Ebay, and Twitter.
Pac-12 Networks in Twitter Streaming Deal
We represented Pac-12 Networks in its deal with Twitter for streaming of 150 live Olympic sports events from the Pac-12 universities.
Fox Networks Group in Online Distribution Agreements
We represented Fox Networks Group in various agreements for carriage of the Fox suite of cable networks and the Fox owned and operated broadcast television stations on various “over-the-top” Internet-based distribution platforms.
Representation of Teva Pharmaceuticals
We represented Teva in its strategic partnership with IBM, which enabled it to become the first multinational pharmaceutical company to deploy IBM’s Watson Health Cloud as its global technology platform. As part of the partnership, a joint Teva-IBM research team will work together using “big data” and machine-learning tools to develop disease models and advanced therapeutic solutions, including solutions designed to collect and analyze real world evidence. The deployment of these models and solutions will enable Teva to provide insights and real-time feedback directly to care providers and patients via mobile devices in order to achieve treatment optimizations and improved patient outcomes.
NFL in $18 Billion Eight-Year Programming Agreements
The National Football League in negotiating its $18 billion eight-year programming agreements with ABC, CBS and Fox Television, its interactive media rights/online cross-promotion and marketing agreement with AOL, CBS and Sportsline.com, and its international content distribution deal with Yahoo!
April 12, 2018, The Recorder
The Recorder highlights the arrival of Suzanne Bell to Covington's Technology Transactions practice. Bell says she was attracted to the firm's strong regulatory practice given the increased intersection between the technology sector and government regulations. Bell adds that she is looking forward to using her experience in technology transactions to assist ...
Health Hires: Greenberg, Covington Add IP, Deals Pros
July 1, 2016, Law360
Van Ellis and John Hurvitz are quoted in a Law360 article regarding Ellis’ arrival as a partner in the firm’s life sciences transactions practice. According to Ellis, who says he is drawn to how Covington deals with some of the largest and most complex transactions in the industry, “Every deal is different than the other deals. There are innovative aspects of ...
Leading Life Sciences Lawyer Joins Covington
June 20, 2016
WASHINGTON—Van Ellis has joined Covington as a partner in its life sciences transactions practice, resident in Washington. Mr. Ellis has extensive experience in a wide variety of technology-based transactions and corporate matters in the life sciences field, from billion-dollar global collaborations to daily commercial and operational matters. He also counsels ...
June 17, 2016
LONDON—Euromoney Legal Media Group has selected four Covington lawyers for its annual “Europe Women in Business Law Awards.” The awards honor women in the legal sector across Europe. The Covington lawyers recognized are: Louise Nash, Best in Mergers & Acquisitions. Ms. Nash focuses on M&A and other transactional matters for clients in the consumer brands, ...
June 3, 2016
NEW YORK—Covington advised the underwriters in connection with Repligen’s $115 million debt offering. The senior convertible notes due in 2021 were placed at 2.125 percent. Repligen is a bioprocessing company focused on the manufacture of Protein A ligands used by life science companies to purify biologic drugs such as monoclonal antibodies, recombinant ...
May 31, 2016
NEW YORK—Covington is advising MagtiCom Ltd., the leading mobile operator in the Republic of Georgia, on its definitive agreement to acquire retail and corporate ISP cable assets from Caucasus Online LLC. The deal is expected to close on or around August 1, 2016. Following the successful conclusion of the transaction, MagtiCom will be the first and only operator ...
- The National Law Journal (2016)
- Chambers USA (2016)
- Outsourcing - Nationwide - Nigel Howard
- Technology & Outsourcing - NY- Nigel Howard
- Intellectual Property - DC
- Intellectual Property - California
- Media and Entertainment - DC
- Privacy and Data Security - Nationwide
- Sports – Nationwide
- Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite - DC
- Chambers Global (2016)
- Data Protection - Europe-wide
- Data Protection - Global-wide
- Chambers UK (2016)
- Data Protection - UK-wide
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Chambers Europe (2016)
- Data Protection - Europe-wide
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Chambers Asia (2016)
- Intellectual Property - International Firms - South Korea
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Legal 500 US (2016)
- Advertising and Marketing
- Technology - Outsourcing
- Technology - Transactions
- Patent Licensing and Transactional
- Data Privacy and Protection
- Sports
- Telecoms and Broadcast - Transactional
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Legal 500 UK (2016)
- Intellectual Property
- IT & Telecoms
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Legal 500 EMEA (2016)
- IT & Telecoms - Belgium
- Information Technology - Belgium
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Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2017)
- China - TMT – Foreign Firms
- Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine - “IAM Patent 1000 - The World’s Leading Patent Professionals” (2016) – International, UK, , California, and Washington, D.C.
- U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers (2016)
- Patent Law - National and Washington, DC
- The International Who's Who of Internet & e-Commerce Lawyers (2015)
- International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (2015)
- Patent
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The Best Lawyers in America (2017)
- Intellectual Property Law
- Intellectual Property Law