Hilco Global offers a comprehensive suite of intellectual property advisory and related capabilities across our platform of companies. These range from highly precise valuation and bespoke disposition to brokerage through intellectual property auctions, direct investment, licensing and licensed brand revitalization/operations.
Recognized as the world’s preeminent intellectual property advisors, we assist clients in identifying, preserving and extracting value from a wide range of IP assets, many of which are frequently overlooked or underestimated on the balance sheet.
Our services integrate IP expertise and technical experience. This combination empowers clients to protect and grow their business by better understanding the content and potential of their patent portfolio and making well informed IP and associated technology investment decisions.
Beyond mining a company’s portfolio to identify and value patent assets, our unique ability to also reverse engineer potentially infringing products enables us to determine solid evidence of misuse by third parties. We provide this capability to many of our clients as a means of continuously protecting and strengthening the market value of their intangible assets while also serving to create an additional infringement revenue stream.
As artificial intelligence, automation, and data-driven business models continue to increase demand for differentiated enterprise data, many companies hold valuable assets that may not be fully reflected on the balance sheet. Hilco Global advises companies, lenders, sponsors, fiduciaries, and other stakeholders on the identification, evaluation, transferability, and monetization of proprietary data and software-based intangible assets in connection with M&A, restructuring, bankruptcy, Article 9, corporate carve-out, and other special situations.
Areas of focus include proprietary corporate and enterprise data; productivity, workflow, and operational datasets; software codebases, repositories, and development histories; technical documentation, product data, and knowledge bases; and customer, usage, transaction, and behavioral datasets.
Brands are valuable intellectual property assets that can generate recurring, high-margin royalty income when strategically extended into new products, services, and markets. The Hilco Global IP Services practice helps brand owners evaluate licensing opportunities, develop commercialization strategies, identify qualified licensing partners, negotiate agreements, and manage licensing programs designed to that generate revenue, protect brand integrity, and enhance long-term brand value.
Hilco Global’s position as is a leader in patent and IP portfolio services can be credited to our extensive experience, comprehensive services, customized solutions, global reach, and proven track record of success. With a team of experienced professionals who are highly proficient in various aspects of patent and IP portfolio management, we are able to handle a wide range of IP portfolios and provide clients with the necessary knowledge to effectively maximize the value of their intellectual property. We offer a comprehensive range of patent and IP portfolio services, including valuation, monetization, acquisition, and divestiture, as well as IP advisory services.
Hilco Global Patents & Technology team helps companies make strategic decisions about generating, leveraging, right-sizing, investing, and monetizing intellectual property and intangible assets.
Hilco Global is considered a leader in intellectual property (IP) valuation because of our extensive experience and expertise in providing comprehensive, accurate, and defensible valuations of IP assets. There are several key factors that set Hilco Global apart from other valuation firms and make us a trusted partner for clients seeking IP valuation services.
Hilco Global’s Article 9 foreclosure services help lenders conduct a commercially-reasonable processes before taking back their collateral, whether they run a value-maximizing processes to liquidate their position or use sale processes to determine the best path to take. Our process allows a foreclosing lender to feel confident in the commercially-reasonable nature of a sale process and allows their counsel to focus on the legal details and documentation of the sale.
Hilco Global is a leading advisor and investor in ultra premium .com domain names, and an emerging category expert in Web 3.0, including Crypto and NFTs. HDA invests in and advises on the sale and acquisition of category and exact match .com domain names. Our partners and clients include Fortune 100 companies, leading venture capital and private equity firms, many of the most reputable domain investors globally, and emerging growth companies and entrepreneurs.
