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PRIMA by Providentia

Providentia is an AI-enabled, non-traditional law firm that retains top-quality lawyers by providing flexibility, stability and opportunity to our attorneys, who in turn provide first-rate work product, expert legal analysis, and valuable business insights to our clients. PRIMA by Providentia represents the core of our firm—secondment—and is rooted in our desire to meet the needs of our innovative clients in Silicon Valley and beyond with professional legal counsel at predictable staffing agency rates.

Working and Pricing Differently

Deeper Legal Expertise Assessment

Our partners rigorously vet every potential PRIMA by Providentia attorney to ensure each possesses the substantive legal skills, business acumen and practice area expertise requirements to meet our client’s expectations.

Bespoke Engagements

We meet with each PRIMA by Providentia client first to fully understand their needs in the legal, as well as the financial, department. Providentia then identifies qualified counsel with a fully scoped engagement proposal, allowing the client a fully-informed matching and alternative fee arrangement decision-making process.

Professional Oversight and Accountability

Each PRIMA by Providentia attorney placed is supervised by the firm to ensure adherence to standards–professional, firm and client—with a clear chain of responsibility and work-product accountability.

Comprehensive Risk Mitigation

PRIMA by Providentia attorneys can access legal tech through the firm on the client’s behalf, creating shared efficiency gains with increased client security. Providentia also maintains and protects attorney-client privilege, during and post-engagement, seamlessly managing conflicts with visibility into the client’s matters.

Continuity, Stability, and Responsiveness

PRIMA by Providentia’s attorneys return to the firm at the end of their secondment to the continued benefit of the client post-engagement. Knowledge of the client’s business practices and positions are maintained within the firm to allow immediate response to any new matters as they arise.

PRIMA Practice Lead

David Ryan

PRACTICE LEAD

Providentia was founded by David Ryan, an internationally experienced business leader and lawyer with a background working in-house or as outside-counsel for Apple, Meta, Google, and eBay. David founded Providentia to offer an innovative platform for outside counsel and secondment solutions, delivering results, and practical commercial guidance.

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Secondment Practice Areas

Patent Prosecution, Analysis & Portfolio Development:
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Wireless
  • AI and NLP
  • AR/VR
  • Cybersecurity
  • Hardware
  • Software
Strategic IP Acquisitions, Divestitures & Licensing: 
  • Technical due diligence
  • Monetization
  • Program formation 
  • Asset integration
  • Tech transactions
Patent Pre-Litigation Defense:
  • Non-infringement charting and position development
  • Design-arounds 
  • Invalidity investigations
  • Response plan development—Counter-assertions and risk mitigation
Open Source Software 
  • Compliance 
  • Commercial differentiation 
  • Standards participation
  • Candidate contribution risk analysis
  • Pool formation
  • Licensing 
Trademarks, Copyrights & Trade Secrets: 
  • Trademarks—Application, Preparation & Prosecution 
    • Landscape searches
    • Clearance
    • TTAB proceedings
  • Copyright
    • Asset registration
    • Management
    • Monitoring
  • Trade Secrets 
    • Due diligence
    • Analysis 
    • Corporate Policy and Best Practices development
    • Program management
  • AI / Machine Learning—Application, creation and adoption 
  • Compliance 
Commercial:
  • Complex technology (buy-side and sell-side) Tech transactions
  • GTM solutions
  • Data privacy implications (US and global)
Corporate:
  • Entity structuring
  • Fund-raising
  • Governance and policy
  • M&A
  • Investments and Divestitures
Privacy:
  • Global privacy law, regulations, and policy compliance
  • Data privacy frameworks 
  • Consumer data protection
Product:
  • Regulatory compliance—hardware, software, marketplace, payment, gaming, and fintech products
Hardware:
  • Product lifecycle management support–design, development and manufacturing stages
  • Supply chain legal support
  • Vendor trade investigation
  • Regulatory compliance certification
Software:
  • Applications, Systems and Services—design, development and release
  • AI, ML and AR/VR initiatives—including regulatory compliance and cybersecurity matters
Services & Content:
  • Internet and App-based services 
  • Marketplace platforms
  • Payments, card services, and other financial services offerings
  • Media and other content types (original and adapted)
  • Employee discrimination claims
  • Compensation
  • Benefits
  • Commercial leases
  • Asset acquisitions
  • Facility development–including offices, data centers and retail establishments
  • Contract review 
  • Business negotiations
  • Document drafting and execution
Pre-litigation advice Offensive and defensive litigation support
  • Partnership/shareholder disputes
  • Class actions
  • Product liability
  • Personal injury
  • Individual/small claims

Answering the Rising Demand for Practical, High-quality, On-demand and Cost-effective In-house Attorneys

PRIMA by Providentia attorneys succeed as secondees because they have extensive experience in both law firm and in-house roles.

  • Deep domain expertise in key legal disciplines obtained at top US law firms.
  • Skills and knowledge from extensive Big Tech in-house experience spanning industries, transactions, technologies, and countries.

These boundary-crossing skills of each PRIMA by Providentia attorney enable exceptional pattern recognition to anticipate issues, organizational collaboration skills to devise innovative legal strategies and a focused approach to deliver expert, pragmatic and proactive in-house solutions.

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