Fenwick & West
Stephen D. Gillespie is a partner in the Technology Transactions Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a Silicon Valley law firm specializing in high technology and life sciences matters. His practice concentrates on structuring, drafting and negotiating complex transactions relating to intellectual property, including national and international technology development and distribution agreements, in-bound and outbound technology license agreements, strategic alliances, and IP issues arising in mergers and acquisitions. He also has expertise in issues arising from use of "Open Source" software and U.S. export control regulations. Mr. Gillespie has been lead outside intellectual property attorney for some of the technology industry's largest mergers, including Symantec's acquisition of Veritas and NetScreen's merger with Juniper Networks. Other clients include Cisco Systems, Electronic Arts, Ubicom, Synopsys and Intuit.