Jeff C. Dodd

Jeff Dodd has more than 40 years’ experience helping companies with their corporate, securities, intellectual property and technology transactions. His clients range in size from Fortune 50 companies to emerging businesses.

Jeff has extensive corporate, securities and corporate finance experience, including public and private securities offerings, merger and acquisition transactions, joint ventures, corporate partnering and similar arrangements, private debt and equity financing transactions (including private equity and venture capital), and regulatory, governance and compliance matters.

Corporate, Securities and Corporate Finance: experience in diverse domestic and international corporate transactions, including:

• representing various participants in public and private merger and acquisition transactions
• representing issuers and underwriters (and investment bankers) in connection with public and private securities offerings
• representing private equity, venture capital and other investment groups or funds, as well as portfolio companies in structuring, documenting and negotiating investment arrangements
• structuring, negotiating and documenting the formation of private equity, venture capital and hedge funds
• advising regulated entities (including broker/dealers and investment advisers) as to regulatory and compliance matters
• structuring, negotiating and documenting joint venture, corporate partnering and similar arrangements

Intellectual Property, Technology, Data Security, Electronic Commerce and Commercialization: extensive experience in a variety of domestic and international intellectual property, information, and business process-related transactions, including

• representing various parties in structuring, negotiating, enforcing, and unwinding licensing transactions, domestic and international, in numerous industries, including energy, computer technology, biotechnology
• negotiating, enforcing and unwinding ERP and outsourcing arrangements
• advising domestic and international clients on data protection, security breach, security and privacy laws and devising compliance strategies
• structuring, negotiating, documenting and unwinding strategic ventures and alliances where intellectual property is the core asset
• planning, design and implementation of electronic commerce and trading strategies and arrangements, domestic and international
• counseling, structuring, negotiating, and documenting intellectual property and information, acquisition, commercialization transactions

• Ranked among IAM Global Leaders (2022-2025), Intellectual Asset Management
• Recognized as a Trademark Star (2016-2024), Transactions Star (2021-2024), and Patent Star (2016-2019) in the IP STARS Handbook, Managing Intellectual Property
• Highly Recommended for Patent Transactions in Texas in the IAM Patent 1000 (2012-2014, 2016-2024), Intellectual Asset Management
• Recognized for Corporate Law and Information Technology Law (1999-2019, 2023-2024) and selected as Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law (2013, 2016, 2020), The Best Lawyers in America
• Recommended for Patents: Licensing (2017-2018, 2020), Copyright (2017-2019), Trademarks: Litigation (2018-2019), Trademarks: Non-Contentious (2018-2019), Patent: Litigation (Full Coverage) (2017), Patent: Prosecution (2017) and Outsourcing (2013-2014), Legal 500 United States
• Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer (2003-2005, 2011-2019), Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters (published in Texas Monthly)
• Profiled as one of the leading Technology (2005-2009) and Intellectual Property (2010-2018) lawyers in Texas, Chambers & Partners USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers
• Recognized as an Acritas Star for outstanding performance (2018)
• Who’s Who in Law, Intellectual Property, Houston Business Journal (2015)
• Recipient, 2015 Dean’s Award, University of Houston Law Center
• Recipient, 2014 Distinguished Service Award, Institute of Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Houston Law Center
• Named a “2012 BTI Client Service All-Star” by BTI Consulting Group
• AV Preeminent rating in Martindale-Hubbell

Member

• Houston Bar Association
  •  Life Fellow
• State Bar of Texas
  • Electronic Commerce Sub-Committee
  • Business Law Section
• American Bar Association
  • Section on Business Law
  • Section on Intellectual Property Law
  • Forum Committee on Franchising
• Licensing Executives Society
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

Past President and Board Member - University of Houston Law Foundation

Advisory Board Member - Wolters Kluwer Author Advisory Board (2024-25)

Advisory Board Member - Honors College of the University of Houston

Fellow - Texas Bar Foundation, Houston Bar Foundation