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Expert legal secondment for IP, AI, Commercial, Corporate, Compliance, Product, and more…

Providentia attorneys succeed as secondees because they have extensive experience in both law firm and in-house roles. This dual background allows them to anticipate problems and identify opportunities, delivering pragmatic and proactive solutions.

Boundary-crossing competencies, combining deep domain expertise in one legal discipline with skills and knowledge from other areas. This fosters organizational collaboration and drives innovation.

BigTech expertise spans industries, transactions, technologies, and countries, enabling exceptional pattern recognition and a focused approach to refining legal strategies.

 This combination of competencies ensures that your business receives efficient, top-tier, and innovative legal support tailored to your specific needs.

What areas do we cover?​

We cover a wide range of practice areas

Our secondees, with deep in-house experience at top tech companies, provide expert, flexible, and cost-effective legal support.

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Intellectual Property

No matter the technology or the field, success in complex industries comes down to protection of your intellectual property. We have a sophisticated IP practice, with deep skill sets in the patent arena.

Patent Analysis & Portfolio Development

Providentia’s patent analysis team offers unmatched expertise. From audio, video, and wireless to AI, AR/VR, and NLP, we cover it all – Patent prosecution, analysis and portfolio development.

Strategic Acquisitions, Divestitures, and Licensing

Our team advises on strategic IP acquisitions and divestitures. We also perform technical due diligence for M&As, focusing on monetization from program formation to asset integration.

Transactions

We offer advice that is understandable, risk-balanced, and actionable across the full range of IP transactions to Fortune 50 companies, Bay Area stalwarts, and mid-sized and emerging companies nationally, 

Pre-Litigation Patent Defense

We advise on patent defense, from non-infringement charting to design-around opportunities. We formulate non-infringement positions, investigate invalidity, counter assertion opportunities, develop response plans, and mitigate risk.

Open Source Software Compliance & Standards

We advise on Open Source Software compliance and commercial differentiation. Furthermore, we assist with Standards participation, candidate contribution risk analysis, and pool formation and licensing.

Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

Our attorneys prosecute trademark applications, including landscape searches, clearance, and TTAB proceedings. We register and manage copyrighted assets, ensuring all rights are secured, especially regarding AI-generated works. We support trade secrets due diligence analysis and develop policy & best practices.

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Artificial Intelligence

We counsel clients who are creating or adopting AI and machine learning applications. We advise on how to develop, leverage, and monetize AI and machine learning technologies and how to maintain a defensible compliance posture that stays attuned to evolving AI laws and regulations.

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Commercial and Corporate

Our law firm is here to guide tech companies with bespoke advice, specializing in tech transactions, go-to-market solutions for US and overseas companies, and the ever-changing related data privacy implications.

Commercial

Our lawyers have accrued expertise in selling and procuring complex technologies. We ensure a balanced approach to risk, benefit, and profit. We counsel on a wide range of goods and services, across channel, enterprise, online, health, and government sectors.

Corporate

We support corporate entity structuring, fund-raising, governance and policy, mergers and acquisitions, investments and divestitures, and related matters. Our mission is to help our clients secure their futures, protect their interests and achieve their visions.

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Compliance

Our compliance attorneys focus on regulatory compliance. Our experienced team can help you understand the regulations which apply and will apply to your business, and build compliance into your products.

Privacy

We assist  in complying with global privacy laws, regulations, and policies. We help clients establish comprehensive data privacy frameworks that comply with the law, protect consumer data, and build trust with users.

Product

Whether it’s hardware, software, marketplaces, payments, gaming, or fintech, we help navigate the regulatory landscape from a product-first perspective. We help build a strong compliance baseline into your products, making compliance a user selling point.

Product

Our firm provides advice to the software, hardware, electrical, and mechanical industries. We help clients embed regulatory compliance into the product architecture. We advise clients on the institution of  policies and practices to avoid regulatory issues before they happen.

Hardware

We  support clients at the design, development and manufacturing stages of the product lifecycle. We also provide supply chain legal support, including investigation of vendor trade and regulatory compliance, such as certification.

Software

We counsel business and engineering groups responsible for designing, developing and releasing software, applications, systems, and services. We provide legal support and expertise in relation to AI, ML and AR/VR initiatives or Apple’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML) teams and initiatives, Including regulatory compliance and cybersecurity advice.

Services & Content

We advise clients on internet- and app-based services such as marketplace platforms, payments and card services, and other content (original and adapted), media, and financial services offerings.

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Employment

We offer legal advice regarding labor and employment law. Our experience encompasses employee claims for discrimination and other matters. We also counsel on compensation and benefit issues.

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Real Estate

Our attorneys advise on all legal matters relating to commercial real estate, including leasing, acquiring and developing offices, data centers and other facilities. We review contracts, assist with business negotiations, identify and analyze legal issues, draft  key documents, and present clear recommendations to clients.

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Civil Litigation

We provide pre-litigation advice, and support offensive and defensive litigation in certain areas, currently including partnership/shareholder disputes, class actions, product liability, personal injury, and individual/small claims.

Inside Counsel Practice Lead

David Ryan Founder of Providentia

Silicon Valley tech attorney, David Ryan

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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Initial consultation

We’ll arrange a call to understand your specific needs and discuss your objectives.

Tailored approach

Whether you need outside counsel or secondment support, we’ll dive deep to tailor our support to your requirements.

Transparent pricing
No blank checks. We pride ourselves in agreeing the scope and costs upfront (no billing surprises); you’ll have a clear understanding of our value from the get-go.
Tech-enabled engagement
Once we finalize details, we’ll match you with a the right attorney to deliver high-quality, cost-effective solutions. We’ll also deploy legal tech on your behalf to ensure our engagement is an efficient as possible.

Why choose Providentia?

Meeting the Rising Demand for Practical, Cost-Effective Legal Solutions

Challenge

The in-house legal department platform is starting to burn.

  • The more-for-less pressure is rising to an intolerable level.
  • GCs need results, solutions, and outcomes.
  • GCs want practical commercial guidance.
  • GCs need to find alternative ways of sourcing legal services.

Opportunity

  • Not just pricing differently, but working differently.
  • Partner-level counsel & secondees with the added-value of business acumen.
  • Legal tech used on your behalf to make us both more efficient.
  • Fully scoped engagements in advance with a range of alternative fee arrangements.
  • Certainty and predictability of costs – no blank check of hourly billing.

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