Our team advises on methods to protect valuable trade secrets, offering expertise in employment contracts, consulting arrangements, licensing agreements, and high-stakes trade secret litigation. We provide strategic guidance to clients striving to build, maintain, and protect patent portfolios, trade secrets, and other proprietary information, with extensive experience in addressing and reducing risks and exposures across all industries.

Our Expertise in Trade Secret Protection

• Enterprise-Wide Protection Services: The Lewis & May trade secrets team offers comprehensive services, including privacy and data security assessments, corporate information security policies, and data breach prevention and response programmes.
• Global Compliance Programmes: We counsel clients on global employee and customer trade secret privacy compliance programmes for multinational businesses, including in the context of M&A, outsourcing, and restructuring.
• Proactive Risk Assessment: We perform initial risk assessments of sensitive data in a company’s network and environment, working with technical advisors to identify any issues of compliance with industry or statutory requirements.