Nader A Mousavi

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions, Cybersecurity, Digital Assets, Energy Transition, Fintech, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Mergers & Acquisitions, Privacy, Technology, Media & Communications and Venture Capital

Career

Widely recognized as one of the top technology deal lawyers in the world, Nader is a partner and co-head of S&C’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group and a member of the Firm's Cybersecurity Group. Nader focuses his practice on IP transactions and strategy and advises on technology-intensive mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and collaborations, as well as the licensing of rights in intellectual property (such as patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets), data, content, pharmaceuticals, software and other technology. He regularly counsels clients on IP and technology strategy, including in the context of artificial intelligence, patent pools, privacy, restructurings, standards and settlements.

Nader’s clients include companies that range from Fortune 50 companies to leading edge innovators in artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, data analytics, drones, genetics, robotics and streaming. Nader advised OpenAI, the company behind AI tools such as ChatGPT, in its multi-year, multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft, and is a leading expert on emerging artificial intelligence issues.

A distinguished thought-leader in the field, Nader is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School (from 2015 to present), where he teaches a course on the Business and Law of Patent and Technology Licensing. He has been recognized by leading industry publications such as The American Lawyer, Chambers USA, Daily Journal, Law360 and the National Law Journal. Earlier in his career, Nader served as the general counsel of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company through its acquisition and later as interim counsel to Cisco’s IP telephony business.

Personal

Stanford Law (JD, 1997); UCLA (BA, 1993).