Lanning G. Bryer

Lanning G. Bryer is a Partner in the New York Office of Ladas & Parry and is Director of the firm’s Mergers, Acquisitions, and Licensing Group. Lanning’s career spans almost three decades of distinguished service at Ladas & Parry. His practice consists of counseling clients on complex IP commercial transactions; drafting and negotiating international and cross-border licensing, stock, asset purchase and sale transactions; counseling clients on the adoption, clearance, and use of trademarks; preparation and recordation worldwide of documentation relating to the transfer and licensing of patents, trademarks and copyrights – ensuring that they conform to local law and practice; performing due diligence of IP rights and agreements prior to, during, and post commercial transactions; foreign trademark and copyright prosecution; rendering of IP-related opinions in major acquisitions or finance transactions; drafting/negotiating agreements and opinions with respect to collateralization of intellectual property rights; serving as expert witness in foreign and domestic IP disputes; collaboration with economists and accountants on the preparation and use of IP valuations. Lanning and his practice group have counseled clients on numerous worldwide transactions associated with the sale, acquisition, licensing and collateralization of their intellectual property rights.