Shruti Chopra

Overview

Shruti is a Counsel in the New York Office and leads the firm’s U.S. Intellectual Property Transactions practice. She specializes in providing comprehensive advice on transactions involving intellectual property and technology assets. Shruti has extensive experience working across a wide range of industries, including technology, life sciences and biotech, media and entertainment, automotive, retail and consumer goods, chemicals, and manufacturing.

Shruti focuses on serving public and private companies, private equity funds, and high-growth startups. Her practice includes intellectual property and technology aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, venture investments, and financing transactions. Shruti also advises on the development, licensing, transfer, and commercialization of intellectual property, technology, and data assets, as well as emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Experience highlights*:

• Volkswagen: advising on a US$5.8bn investment and electric vehicle technology joint venture with EV manufacturer Rivian, including IP licensing arrangements, software development arrangements and cross-licenses.
• Rio Tinto: advising on its pending US$6.7bn acquisition of Arcadium Lithium.
• Dow: advising on its partnership transaction with Macquarie Asset Management to launch US$6bn Diamond Infrastructure Solutions
• Aperam S.A.: advising the global leader in stainless and specialty steel solutions on its agreed acquisition of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAP) in an all-cash transaction. 
• Tate & Lyle PLC: advising on the proposed acquisition of CP Kelco, a leading provider of pectin, speciality gums and other nature-based ingredients, from J.M. Huber Corporation for US$1.8bn.
• Carroll Street Capital: advising the New York-based investment firm on structuring and executing a transaction that formalized a partnership to create BRESH Global – an entertainment company deeply rooted in Latin culture. 
• Carrier Global Corporation*: advising on the sale of its security business, Global Access Solutions, to Honeywell and sale of its Industrial Fire business to Sentinel Capital Partners.
• Merck & Co., Inc.*: advising on the acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences.
• Qualcomm, Inc.*: advising on the acquisition of Veoneer, Inc., including long-term services and licensing arrangements relating various automotive technologies
• Apollo Global Management*: advising on the acquisition of the Terminals, Solutions & Services business line from Worldline
• Apollo Global Management*: advising on the acquisition of incumbent local exchange carrier assets and associated operations in 20 states from Lumen Technologies.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Linklaters.