Technology

/Overview

We help technology companies grow, protect what they’ve built, and move quickly in a competitive market, whether they’re emerging companies or global leaders.

Technology companies are moving quickly to embed artificial intelligence and automation into products, platforms, and services. As innovation outpaces regulation, organizations face growing scrutiny around data privacy, intellectual property, and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) deployment. Balancing speed to market with compliance and ethical governance remains a defining challenge across the sector. 

Our work in the technology industry aligns with the ambitions of clients across the tech ecosystem, whether you’re a visionary startup, an industry leader, or a traditional business transforming through technology. Our dynamic approach supports clients through the sector’s evolving complexities and empowers them to make smarter, faster, and stronger moves in a competitive market.

We advise tech innovators, private equity and venture capital firms, academic institutions, emerging companies, and investors across a spectrum of critical needs, including:

• M&A and corporate transactions
• Data privacy
• Intellectual property protection
• Dispute resolution
• Regulatory compliance
• FinTech and digital assets

Drawing on deep knowledge, our attorneys help our clients anticipate challenges, navigate risk, and deliver solutions that fuel growth and innovation. Wherever your journey takes you, from product development to market leadership, we’re by your side, helping you execute your vision.

/Our Focus

• AI: Innovators rely on our counsel to develop, protect, and commercialize AI technologies while managing ethical and regulatory considerations.
• Digital Media: In an increasingly digital world, we support media companies with licensing, content rights, advertising standards, and data privacy.
• FinTech: We advise FinTech companies in navigating complex regulatory frameworks, ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering and data privacy laws, defending against state and federal agency civil enforcement actions and complex individual and class action lawsuits, and addressing emerging risks such as cybersecurity and fraud.
• Healthcare Technology: From compliance to data privacy to innovation in patient-focused solutions, we help clients navigate the intersection of technology and healthcare.
• Software: We provide comprehensive support for software development, licensing, and intellectual property protection.

/Representative Experience

• ACV Auctions Inc.: Represented a leading digital marketplace and data services provider for wholesale vehicle transactions in several strategic transactions, including its recent acquisition of Indiana Auto Auction, LLC 
• athenahealth, Inc.: Represented a cloud-based healthcare products and services provider in its acquisitions of Quatris HealthCo, LLC 
• Health Catalyst: Ongoing representation of this leading provider of data and analytics technology in strategic transactions, labor and employment counseling, and commercial disputes
• Sycurio, Inc.: Representing a UK-based CX consulting company in a patent infringement case against one of its competitors in the Western District of North Carolina 
• TDK Corporation: Represent a world leader in electronic solutions in connection with its acquisition of Qeexo, Co., a company engaged in the automation of machine learning for edge devices. Overhauled IP prosecution strategy to create a defensive patent portfolio for one of the largest personal electronics manufacturers in the world in response to increasing threats of litigation and demands for licensing
• UST Global Inc.: Represent a leading digital transformation solution company in numerous corporate transactions including recent strategic acquisitions to further expand UST’s automation technologies to help clients across a range of industries optimize their business processes, enhance the customer experience, and reduce operational costs 
• Validity: Represented a software data analytics and email marketing company in its acquisition of an email optimization and testing software provider
• Verizon Wireless, Inc.: Ongoing representation of one of the nation’s largest wireless telecommunications companies in connection with obtaining zoning approvals for communications towers for more than 2,000 cell sites throughout New York and Pennsylvania, including appearances before zoning, planning, and town/village/city boards. NP has also served as primary land use litigation counsel at the trial court and appellate court levels to overturn denials of approvals by local boards and also to include all aspects of real estate involved in the easement and lease acquisitions of the sites. 
• Leading telecommunications company: National counsel in the ongoing defense of client for various state FCA charges (MA, RI, PA, DC, MN, IA, NC, AL, GA, IL) 
• Subsidiary of multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company: Securing dismissal, with prejudice, of multiple toxic tort cases in Western District of New York, handling Investigation by the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General; and negotiated resolution of a complicated telecommunications and construction dispute
• Fintech and digital payments clients: Represent clients deploying AI-driven financial technologies, digital asset and stablecoin payment systems, and open banking solutions and advising on regulatory compliance under developing US and EU frameworks, including Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), open banking rules, and helping structure innovative, secure, and compliant digital asset offerings and global payment arrangements

/Recognition

• Nixon Peabody has been named a Tier 1 National firm for Litigation - Intellectual Property and Patent Law in the 2026 edition of Best Law Firms®.