The Transactions Practice
Dealmaking, done right.
Your portfolio holds value your business will never use. We help you realize it — through divestitures, licensing, and principled monetization — on your terms, with your reputation intact.
Where We Begin
A patent you will never use is capital already spent.
Most portfolios hold assets the business has moved past: products retired, markets exited, research that never became a roadmap. The R&D behind them was real and the cost is sunk. Left alone, those assets do one thing. They draw maintenance fees.
Black Pine IP's transactions practice exists to do something better with them, and to fill the gaps a portfolio has on the other side. We sell, buy, and license patents for operating companies, investors, and inventors, and we carry each deal from first assessment through to closing.
Acquire what completes the form. Divest what no longer serves it.
01 · Sell
Find the right buyer, on your terms.
Divestitures and patent brokerage for companies holding assets the business has moved past. We decide with you what to sell, prepare it properly, take it to the buyers who should see it, and stay with the deal until it closes.
Selecting what to sell
A review of the portfolio against where the business is going: which assets to keep, and which have more value in someone else's hands.
Preparing the package
Assets grouped the way buyers buy, with the claim charts and evidence of use that let a serious buyer say yes.
Valuation & pricing
A defensible view of what the assets are worth and a pricing strategy to match, before anything goes to market.
Buyer outreach
A buyer list you approve, approached directly and discreetly. No public listings unless you want one.
Negotiation
Price, retained rights, license-backs, and the terms that decide whether a good price is a good deal.
Through to closing
Buyer diligence managed, documents coordinated with your lawyers, payment and transfer finished properly.
02 · Buy
Acquire what the portfolio is missing.
Sometimes the fastest way to close a gap is to buy the patents that fill it. We find them, assess them, and negotiate for them, with your name kept out of the market until you choose otherwise.
Defining the need
What the acquisition has to accomplish for the business, turned into a specification for the assets worth pursuing.
Sourcing
Identifying the patents and the owners, including assets that are not publicly for sale.
Assessment
Coverage, quality, remaining life, encumbrances, and ownership history examined before you commit.
Negotiation & closing
Approaching the owner, agreeing the price and terms, and seeing the transfer through.
03 · License
Keep the asset. Realize the value.
Not every asset should be sold. Licensing lets a company keep ownership of what it built while earning a return from others who can use it. For some portfolios it is the better path; for others it runs alongside a sale.
Program design
Which assets to license, to whom, and on what model, set by what the business wants the portfolio to do.
Finding licensees
Companies with a real use for the technology, approached as prospective partners.
Structuring the deal
Scope, field, term, and economics that fit both sides and hold up over the life of the agreement.
Sale with license-back
Selling an asset while keeping the rights your own products need.
On Monetization
Realizing a return on what you built is stewardship.
Monetization is the plain word for this work, and we use it plainly. For many operating companies the word carries baggage, and the baggage belongs to business models that begin with assertion.
What we do is different in kind. We help companies realize a return on assets they created through their own R&D, by selling and licensing them in negotiated deals. Dormant patents are capital already spent. Recovering that value funds the portfolio the business needs, and you can do it entirely on your own terms: the counterparties, the structures, and the standards you are comfortable defending in public.
On your terms, with your reputation intact.
How Deals Run
Your deal, run to your standards.
A patent transaction puts a company's name and judgment in front of the market. How it is run matters as much as the price.
Discretion
Nothing goes to market under your name without your approval. Outreach can be run without identifying you until you choose.
Counterparty standards
You decide who you will and won't deal with. We hold to it, including when a higher offer comes from the wrong buyer.
Your control
You approve the package, the buyer list, the price, and every term. We advise and negotiate. You decide.
Finished properly
A deal isn't done at signature. We stay through payment, transfer, and the handover of the files.
Beyond the Deal
Where a transaction connects.
When the deal raises a strategy question.
What to sell, what to buy, and what to keep are portfolio strategy questions before they are deal questions. Our advisory practice answers them under the same roof, to the same standard.
Advisory →Why we work this way.
Every deal we run serves a view of what the portfolio should become. That view has a name, and it is where the firm's name comes from.
The Black Pine IP philosophy →Tell us what you are holding, or what you are missing.
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