Senior Counsel - IP Special Deals & Analytics

Senior Counsel - IP Special Deals & Analytics

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, groundbreaking ideas quickly evolve into exceptional products, services, and customer experiences. Bring your passion and dedication, and there's no telling what you could achieve. Do you thrive in an environment of innovation, risk management, and strategic thinking? Do you possess deep expertise in intellectual property law and strong negotiation skills? As a part of the IP Special Deals & Analytics team, you'll navigate and develop novel solutions to complex IP issues around the world that cross legal, engineering, and operational disciplines. This is a unique opportunity for a hard-working, ambitious lawyer to contribute to the success of some of the most groundbreaking products in the world. Working for a company that invents entire product categories and shapes industries means you'll be challenged to apply your expertise creatively to dynamic and often unexplored aspects of the law.

We're seeking a highly skilled and experienced attorney to join Apple's IP Special Deals & Analytics team. You'll join a team of technical, financial, and legal experts to drive strategy for some of the most complex IP issues facing Apple. You'll also work cross-functionally with other business and legal teams at Apple. And you'll navigate and negotiate with multiple external IP stakeholders. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing IP deals and negotiations with data-driven analysis and innovative approaches.
• Negotiating, valuing, and drafting IP license, acquisition, and settlement agreements.
• Identifying key existing and emerging areas of IP risk and opportunity, and developing innovative ways to address them.
• Curating and providing centralized IP data and intelligence to inform decision-making and strategy.
• Developing comprehensive diligence and analysis for incoming IP disputes.
• Working closely with Apple's IP Litigation, IP Transactions, teams, as well as outside counsel and experts, to develop royalty and valuation theories.
• Fostering partnerships with engineering, operations, supply, finance, product legal, and other teams at Apple to develop and drive IP dispute strategies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience at a top law firm, in-house legal department, and/or patent transactions entity.
• In-depth experience managing complex, multi-party IP disputes and transactions, both in litigation and outside of litigation.
• Deep knowledge of patent license and other IP transactions agreement principles.
• JD or equivalent and admission to at least one US state bar.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with and knowledge of stakeholders in the patent monetization space, including pools, aggregators, brokers, and litigation funders.
• Experience managing cross-border IP issues.
• Ability to advise and coordinate with all types of business, legal, and engineering clients in an unstructured environment.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Excellent communication, analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Strategic problem solver with the ability to see the big picture while working with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Proven track record of working independently, balancing numerous evolving workstreams, and taking ownership.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.