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JB Betker
Biography
JB focuses on corporate law with an emphasis on advising clients on the intellectual property and technology aspects of transactional matters, including licensing arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings and capital markets offerings.
He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of transactional documents, focusing on intellectual property and technology, including trademark, patent and copyright license agreements, software agreements, development and manufacturing agreements, service agreements, assignment agreements, stock / asset purchase agreements, credit agreements, security agreements, offering memoranda and related ancillary documents.
His experience includes working with clients in the computer hardware and software, power, automotive, pharmaceutical, medical device, chemical and financial services industries.
Prior to joining the firm, JB was at an intellectual property boutique handling intellectual property counseling matters, including intellectual property litigation and prosecution and patent portfolio valuation and acquisition.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Tech transactions
- Intellectual property transactions
- Intellectual property
- Data privacy and data protection
- Complex commercial transactions
- Emerging growth
Sectors
- Technology
- Power
- Automotive
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Chemicals
- Financial institutions
- Energy
- Industrials and manufacturing
Selected experience
- SAP in the USD12.5 billion sale of Qualtrics International to Silver Lake and on strategic acquisitions of artificial intelligence companies Dremio and Prior Labs..
- Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in various matters, including its USD11.7 billion acquisition of Black Knight, Inc. and related divestitures; the sale of its “Interactive Data Managed Solutions” business; and the sale of Trayport.
- General Electric Company in various matters, including in the combination of GE Oil & Gas with Baker Hughes, Inc. to create a USD32 billion oilfield technology provider and in connection with the sale of GE’s distributed power business for USD3.25 billion.
- The Dow Chemical Company in various matters related to its USD130 billion combination with DuPont and subsequent spinoff.
- Texas Instruments on its USD7.5 billion acquisition of Silicon Labs.
- Boston Scientific in various transitions including its USD15 billion proposed acquisition of Penumbra, Inc. and a definitive agreement to acquire Axonics Inc., a publicly traded medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of differentiated devices to treat urinary and bowel dysfunction, for an equity value of approximately USD3.7 billion.
- Genmab on its proposed USD8 billion acquisition of Merus.
- Paramount Global on the sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR for USD1.62 billion.
- American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. in connection with its USD1.6 billion cash and stock acquisition of Metaldyne Performance Group Inc.
- Raytheon on the sale of its Military Airborne Radios business to BAE Systems.
Education
- B.S., University of Notre Dame, 2007 B.A., University of Notre Dame, 2007 J.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2010
Admissions
- New York, 2011
- *JB’s name as registered with the New York Bar is Corey James Betker
- Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, 2015