Clean Tech
For businesses in the field of clean or new energy, intellectual property is often a major commercial asset. Success often depends on effectively protecting and exploiting intellectual property. It is the key to a company’s innovative power and creativity as well as market reputation.
Businesses in this sector are faced with a number of strategic challenges:
- rapid technological advances,
- growing competition,
- the need to get to market fast,
- the challenge of managing growth, and
- understanding the regulatory environment.
For many years, Taylor Wessing has been advising technology companies and institutional investors on raising finance, and on the protection and commercialisation of their products and intellectual property. Combining our knowledge of, and expertise in, the energy sector with our pre-eminent intellectual property and venture capital practices gives us a unique position in the field of clean or new energy. These practices are supported by services across the firmwide network, including environmental regulation and compliance, tax structuring and employment law. We advise annually on scores of transactions in the field of venture capital, securities issues, private equity and mergers and acquisitions.