Jill A.
McWhirter

Assisted Natura Resources, LLC, in managing all intellectual property matters related to the research, construction and operation of the first university based molten salt research reactor with top universities in the nuclear engineering field to learn how to generate and harvest isotopes to help aid in cancer research and be used in new types of cancer therapy.

Representation of a private equity and credit investor in its licensing negotiations for process proprietary technology and software needed to design, construct and operate a new "grassroots" sulfuric acid alkylation plant at its commercial facility located in Pasadena, Texas.

Representation of a leading North American provider of midstream energy services in drafting and negotiating a multi-million dollar technology license, engineering and performance guarantee agreements for a new isobutylene plant to be built in Mont Belvieu, Texas.

Review and negotiate technology and software license agreements for world largest cooler manufacturer.

Review and negotiate software licensing agreements between major U.S. car manufacturer and third parties seeking to develop apps for the in-vehicle safety and security system.

Handled intellectual property issues related to Borden Dairy’s sale of substantially all of its assets to New Dairy OpCo, LLC – a joint venture between K&S client, KKR Credit Advisors (US) LLC and certain of its affiliates and managed funds (“KKR”) and Capitol Peak Partners after Borden and its subsidiaries and affiliates filed for Chapter 11 in the District of Delaware on January 5, 2020.

Assisted on intellectual property and licensing matters related to Gemstone Solutions Group, Inc. (formerly known as Gymboree Group, Inc., which was a leading children’s apparel manufacturer and retailer under the Gymboree, Janie & Jack and Crazy 8 brands prior to the sale of substantially all of its assets) and its affiliates on its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization on behalf of our client, affiliates of Goldman Sachs as the prepetition agent, prepetition lender, DIP agent and DIP lenders.

Review and negotiated software license agreements to be used for a top five drill bit manufacturer in its facilities to increase efficiency and minimize defects in final product.

Preparation of joint intellectual property ownership and license agreements in connection with the acquisition of a business unit of Unisys Corporation on behalf of Science Applications International Corporation (worth in excess of $1.2B).

Representation of Motiva Enterprises in its technology licensing transactions with to construct a high and medium density polyethylene plant in Texas.

Negotiation of a nine-figure deal to migrate legacy mainframe systems to the cloud, and preparation of an associated professional services and software development agreement on behalf of one of the world’s largest payment processors.

Represented one of the world's largest drill bit manufacturers in all aspects of IP transactional, licensing and litigation matters.

Negotiated framework terms and conditions, statements of work and service agreement on a $200 million agreement with a major enterprise application software supplier.

Negotiated a US$50 million cloud-based security network agreement for a large petrochemical company.

Drafted and negotiated over 200 software license agreements, enterprise agreements, software maintenance and support agreements over last three years involving third-party licensees for a start-up of a major international petrochemical manufacturing plant.