Gabriel Hamilton provides legal services to startup businesses with an emphasis on technology and Internet companies.

Significant Representation

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Negotiated and drafted agreements for the buyer in a multi-million dollar acquisition of 17-bed residential facility for troubled youth in Michigan.
• Represented seller and founder of a small business in sale of shares to junior partners on seller’s retirement.
• Assisted asset manager/co-investor in multiple sales of offshore entities holding real estate assets in the People’s Republic of China.

Corporate Finance

• Worked with real estate developer in formation of fund for investment in distressed commercial real estate.
• Served Shanghai-based real-estate asset manager in formation of real estate private-equity partnerships in Shanghai and Tianjin.
• Assisted startup technology company in issuing third round of preferred stock.

Intellectual Property Transactions

• Negotiated and drafted key licensing agreements between startup enterprise-software development company and its customers.
• Represented startup biotech firm in negotiations to license patented compounds and related intellectual property.
• Drafted artist and production company agreements and releases for a music publishing company.

Internet Law and Trademarks

• Drafted key arguments for defendants in Google AdWords trademark infringement action.
• Initiated domain-name arbitration under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy and similar national policies of the People’s Republic of China and of South Korea on behalf of a personal-care products company.
• Assisted a university athletic program in obtaining a federally registered trademark for a distinctive color of artificial turf used on its athletic field.

Corporate Governance

• Worked with a reporting company’s board of directors on updating the audit committee charter, corporate disclosure policy, and code of conduct both to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and to fit the company’s size and resources for internal controls and compliance.
• Produced a top-down rewrite of the articles of incorporation and bylaws for a major health insurance plan.
• Worked with a major health insurance plan’s board of directors on developing and updating standards, policies, and procedures related to director independence and conflicts of interest.

Bar Admissions

Idaho State Bar

Professional Membership

American Bar Association, 2008 to present