Structuring Equity License Transactions for Success

Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Online
Presenter:
Christopher F. Wright, JD - McCausland Keen + Buckman
Robert B. McGrath, PhD - Drexel University


With the heightened attention of senior academic administrators on economic development and fostering innovation ecosystems, academic technology transfer organizations are increasingly focusing their commercialization activities on identifying, qualifying, incubating, accelerating, and financing start-up ventures. This top-down pressure is aligned with bottom-up pressure from faculty researchers who are interested in the impact of their discoveries and want to commercialize them through start-ups. Technology managers are now thrust into new roles beyond positioning the licensed technology to become part of a commercially successful product in a thriving company. To achieve these goals, technology managers and other