People default image

Glen Williams

Associate
San Francisco
About

Glen Williams concentrates his practice in technology and intellectual property transactions. He has experience drafting a variety of intellectual property and technology-related agreements, including services agreements, transition services agreements, development agreements, proprietary information and inventions agreements (PIIAs), and online terms. Glen also advises and provides support for intellectual property issues related to mergers and acquisitions. Glen additionally advises clients on their insurance policy coverage and indemnification issues in the context of commercial transactions, and he supports the AI & Data Analytics practice group with their regulatory and litigation research.

His clients include both small startups backed by private equity and large public tech companies.

Areas of FocusCorporateTechnology and Commercial TransactionsMergers and AcquisitionsInsurance
Bar admissionsCalifornia

EXPERIENCE

  • Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., in the intellectual property and commercial matters related to its acquisition of Ventana Micro Systems Inc., a leading developer of RISC-V instruction set architecture for CPU technology
  • Sana, an AI company at the forefront of AI for work, in the intellectual property and commercial contracting elements of its entry into a US$1.1 billion definitive agreement to be acquired by Workday, Inc.
  • Paradox, Inc., a candidate experience agent that uses conversational AI to simplify the job application journey, in the intellectual property and commercial contracting elements of its entry into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Workday, Inc.
  • Numbers Station, a data intelligence platform powered by generative AI, in the intellectual property and commercial contracting elements of its sale to Alation
  • Resmed, a health technology company, in the intellectual property elements of its acquisition of VirtuOx, a diagnostic testing facility, for sleep, respiratory, and cardiac conditions
  • Safeguard Global in the intellectual property and commercial matters related to the spin-off of its global payroll solutions business to Deel
  • Slip.stream in the software intellectual property elements of its acquisition of certain production music portfolio of Anthem Entertainment
  • A prominent publicly traded technology company in the intellectual property and commercial matters related to the divestiture of its communications technology group business
  • A leading wireless technology company in commercial and technology agreements in connection with the acquisition of a developer of a machine learning development platform
  • A leading manufacturer of medium-duty commercial all-electric trucks and buses in their technology development, licensing and supply chain contracts
  • A prominent aerospace company in the drafting of its teaming agreement for the collaboration, development, and commercialization of jet engines for use under government contracts
  • A bankrupt entity in the software licensing matters related to the winding down of its software business
Languages
  • German
  • Latin
  • Spanish
Education
  • J.D., Stanford University
  • B.A., Late Antique-Medieval Studies, Pomona College

My latest insights

Publication
sedimentary rocks

Understanding switching rights under the Data Act

31 July 2025 .10 minute read

News
Abstract_Building_P_0084

AKD Partners advises Lucanet on acquisition of financial planning and analysis platform...

20 November 2024 .2 minute read

Publication
Programming_Code_S_2309

SFC v. Vizio survives motion for summary judgment on third-party beneficiary issue

16 January 2024 .6 minute read

View All

Connect

Phone

+1 415 836 2592
(Work, San Francisco)
+1 415 659 7392
(Fax, San Francisco)