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Todd M. Schneider

Partner, Tech Transactions

toddschneider@paulhastings.com

Todd Schneider is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Paul Hastings. His practice covers a broad range of commercial transactions and counseling involving intellectual property and technology. Todd regularly advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, finance and restructuring transactions involving intellectual property, and strategic technology agreements. Todd also oversees the firm’s trademark prosecution practice and has extensive experience working on securities offerings. He regularly prepares and negotiates a wide array of commercial agreements, including collaboration, license, reseller, manufacturing and software as a service (SaaS) agreements. He also counsels clients with respect to open source matters.

REPRESENTATIONS

  • Accelrys, an R&D software and services company, in its $750 million sale to Dassault Systèmes.

  • The Boeing Company in several transactions, including its acquisition of ForeFlight, a provider of mobile and web-based aviation applications, and its strategic partnership with Kitty Hawk’s Cora division to advance urban air mobility.

RECOGNITIONS

  • Top Rated Intellectual Property Attorney and Rising Star

    San Diego Super Lawyer

PUBLICATIONS

  • “Key Areas For Reviewing Software-As-A-Service Agreements,” Law360

    DECEMBER 1, 2017

  • “Rediscover the Law: Joint Authorship Requires More than the Authors’ Intent to Merge Their Contributions,” IP Today

    June 2012