Steve Fisher advises boards, investors and management in the areas of capital formation, mergers, acquisitions and financing, including venture capital and other private financings. His practice includes the protection, licensing and distribution of technology, intellectual property and internet-based business.
Steve previously served as legal counsel to Picnik www.picnik.com, the leading online photo-editing application, prior to it being acquired by Google in March 2010.
Steve was recognized as a 2010 Washington Super Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law and 2010 The Best Lawyers in America for his practice in technology law.
Representative Work
* Local Counsel in the sale of Virtual PC to Microsoft Corporation
* $1.4 million angel debt investment (June 2009)
* Negotiated wind power assessment licenses
* $18 million buy-out of international logistics subsidiary
* $115 million sale of Yellowstone Club
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Janet Kim Lin counsels clients in the protection, licensing, and distribution of intellectual property. She represents firms in the design industry, including industrial designers, architects, and web designers. Janet drafts and negotiates technology and intellectual property agreements with a focus on copyright, trademark, and trade secret transactions. She also has a wide range of experience with supplier and vendor agreements across various industries. Janet has extensive commercial litigation experience and counsels clients in dispute resolution and prevention.
Janet is completing advanced legal studies in Intellectual Property Law and Policy at the University of Washington with a focus on apparel design, film, and literary works. Her coursework includes Advanced Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and Trade Secret Law; Trademark Practice; Strategic Licensing Agreements; Entertainment and Advertising Law; IP Litigation; Internet and Privacy Law, Virtual Worlds and Social Networks; and EU Community IP Law.
Janet also has a background in clean-tech and the green building design industry and was one of the first attorneys in the country to achieve the LEED Accredited Professional designation. She frequently speaks at national legal and trade conferences on this topic.
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Gail Manuguid is an associate in Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Seattle office, and focuses her practice on Corporate and Business matters. Gail has significant experience assisting both public and privately held companies with a range of corporate legal needs, including pre-formation planning, entity formation, corporate governance, and contractual issues, and cross-border transactions. She has also advised companies on a range of regulatory matters, including assisting an American subsidiary of a Japanese freight forwarder on compliance with Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (J-SOX). In addition, she has handled several multi-million dollar acquisition and reorganization transactions between companies on a regional, national and international scale.
Recently, Gail worked on the team that negotiated the sale of the Yellowstone Club, a private golf and ski resort in Montana, out of bankruptcy court. The sale to a private equity firm, Boston-based CrossHarbor Capital Partners, was for a total price of $115 million and closed in July 2009.
Gail also has experience drafting employment contracts, as well as non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements. She has defended clients against unfair competition claims, including those for violation of NCA's, NSAs, and trade secrets.
Gail has counseled clients across several industry sectors, including design, engineering, sustainable resources, retail and finance. She is also highly experienced in several areas specific to the technology industry, and has assisted internet and digital media clients with a range of privacy, content liability, and intellectual property matters, including compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the European Union Safe Harbor Act, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Gail is General Counsel for a non-profit organization providing humanitarian aid to children worldwide, and has also been involved in cases under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
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