| Organization: Corporate Functions/Legal
Location: USA (Within USA, location is negotiable) Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 200 cities with operations across 51 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com. People in the Corporate Function career track contribute to the running of Accenture as a high- performance business through specialization within a specific functional area, and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area. Legal and Commercial Services professionals deliver and coordinate legal, contract and commercial advice and counsel in support of Accenture's or our clients' business, working to manage and mitigate risk and ensure ethical behavior and compliance with laws and company policies. Job Description
Specialty: Intellectual Property Accenture seeks a seasoned intellectual property transactional attorney with at least 6 years of broad, in-depth transactional experience, including significant experience in leading IP aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and software licensing. The candidate will be responsible for leading and supporting a wide variety of complex IP transactions across our business. The candidate should demonstrate an ability to quickly and proactively identify, understand, and solve a wide variety of IP issues, including patent, copyright, trade secret and IP transactional issues, that commonly arise in our business. The candidate will also be a valuable partner to our business by helping to develop and implement firm-wide IP strategic initiatives, policies, best practices, and training to minimize risk and maximize business outcomes. Key Responsibilities: - Anticipates, manages and resolves IP issues that arise across the lifecycle of M&A activity.
- Leads or supports due diligence, analysis, structuring, drafting and negotiation of IP terms and agreements during mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, and related post-closing activities.
- Leads the management of IP issues on complex client-facing or alliance transactions and liaising with legal colleagues and business teams to resolve those issues.
- Drafts, analyzes, structures and negotiates agreements related to all types of IP transactions, including software licenses and collaboration agreements.
- Advises on complex licensing arrangements, including music, film, and image licensing.
- Advises on corporate activities on social media channels, including the appropriate use of third-party materials and compliance with relevant terms of use and developer agreements.
- Develops and formalizes IP-related processes, templates and form agreements.
- Develops and implements IP strategic initiatives, policies, best practices, and training designed to mitigate IP risks and maximize business outcomes.
Relationships:
Reports to: IP Transactional Legal Lead
Supervises: Outside Counsel |
