IP Strategy and Cross-Border

IP due diligence is a structured review of the intellectual property involved in a transaction — a merger, acquisition, investment round or joint venture — to identify what exists, verify who actually owns it and assess the risks attached to it. It often surfaces problems that change the price or the deal terms: gaps in ownership, lapsed registrations or unclear chain of title. We carry out the review and report the findings in a way the deal team can act on.

Centralising ownership in a holding entity, with intra-group licences to the operating companies, can make a portfolio easier to manage, finance and transfer, and clearer to value. The right structure depends on where the group operates and on tax and corporate considerations that must be handled together with those advisers — we coordinate the intellectual property side with the wider META Channel Corporation tax and corporate practice rather than treating it in isolation.

Intangible assets are generally valued using cost-based, market-based or income-based approaches, chosen according to the asset and the purpose — a transaction, accounting, or litigation. Valuation is a specialist discipline, so we work with specialist valuers and provide the legal analysis of the rights that underpins their figures, ensuring scope, ownership and enforceability are correctly reflected.

A strategic IP audit is a review of a client’s full portfolio to map what they own against what the business actually needs. It identifies gaps in protection, overlaps, assets that are underused or unregistered, and registration risks that could be exploited by competitors. The output is a prioritised picture of where to file, consolidate, divest or strengthen, rather than a simple inventory.

The starting point is deciding where rights should sit, how they will be registered for European coverage — often through EU rights and the Madrid System — and how they will be licensed to local operations. The aim is a coherent structure for the whole corridor rather than ad hoc filings market by market. This is exactly the inbound work the firm is built around, with a single point of contact across Europe, Latin America and Africa.

Strategic IP decisions rarely stay within IP: holding structures and licences touch competition law, data-driven products touch the GDPR, and AI products touch the EU AI Act. Treating these in isolation creates risk. Because IP Global Guard sits within META Channel Corporation, we coordinate the intellectual property strategy with these adjacent regulatory frameworks so they stay consistent.

Operational work is the day-to-day filing, prosecution and renewal of individual rights. Strategy is the layer above it: how rights are held, where they are registered, how they move within a group and how they are valued and transferred. Most firms do the operational work well; the strategic layer is where a multi-jurisdictional portfolio is either an asset or a liability, and it is the practice this firm is built around.

Yes — that is the point of the practice. We coordinate intellectual property questions across the European Union and European Economic Area, Latin America and Africa, and any other jurisdiction where the client operates, under one strategy and a single point of contact. Operational filings in each country are coordinated through our network, so the local detail stays aligned with the overall architecture.