Sarah Schaedler

Sarah’s practice focuses on structuring and negotiating the intellectual property aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, business divestitures, and commercial transactions where software and technology are the principal assets as well as stand-alone strategic licensing matters. Sarah also advises clients on their Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy and roadmap implementation with a focus on the procurement and negotiation of AI contracts.

Sarah routinely advises on carve-outs and business separation transactions and helps clients with structuring and implementing their intellectual property and technology separation and integration roadmaps.

Sarah has counseled several companies in their preparation for a divestiture and understands the issues a buyer is focused on in the context of intellectual property matters. She regularly helps companies implement remediation steps around their intellectual property assets to help them to a successful closing.

She has significant experience advising private equity funds on investments involving companies that are driven by technology and innovation, as well as intellectual property reliant consumer product companies and companies that are stepping into digitalization.

As a member of Orrick’s AI leadership group, Sarah is involved in Orrick’s AI practice strategy and thought leadership projects related to AI matters.