Kogitant projects have included:

• Patent portfolio due diligence and legal negotiations support for early-stage VC funds
• Provision of the ‘IP advisory service’ for SEEDA Enterprise Hubs in SE England – supporting early-stage start-ups on IP management issues
• Business plan generation and fund-raising support for several UK-based tech start-ups
• Interim legal counsel and IP management for a funded biomaterials start-up – successfully negotiating and closing a seed-stage deal with a London-based seed fund for one area of application and supporting negotiation with a large US medical devices firm on a co-development and licensing arrangement

• Successful support of a medical devices start-up through Goldman Sachs due diligence leading to trade sale of an application area to a major US medical devices company
• Successful contact generation and EU institution negotiation support for a ‘Technology Transfer Accelerator’ fund for SETsquared - a collaboration of four major UK universities
• Strategic review of IP-centred activity leading up to a major restructuring for Celentis - the commercial arm of AgResearch – New Zealand’s life science research institute