Sarah Bro focuses her practice on trademark prosecution, enforcement, and brand portfolio management, as well as licensing, due diligence, copyright, right of publicity, and domain name matters.

Sarah assists clients across an array of industries with all stages of domestic and international trademark prosecution, and provides consultation and strategy with respect to the selection, clearance, enforcement, and licensing of trademarks. Sarah’s clients include domestic and international companies in industries such as healthcare, blockchain and financial technologies, software/mobile applications, agriculture, fashion and apparel, consumer goods, beauty, wellness and lifestyle (including CBD products), arts and entertainment, food and beverage, hospitality, mining, and pharmaceuticals. Sarah has extensive experience in the research, drafting, and filing of documents with the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and the US Copyright Office. Sarah has a proven track record in recovering domain names through the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policies. Sarah is also well versed in the submission of “takedown” and infringement notices across third-party websites, social media platforms, app stores, and online marketplaces. She has experience in swiftly addressing instances of fraud, phishing, or other online abuse by leveraging intellectual property claims through a multi-pronged enforcement approach. Sarah also regularly provides intellectual property (IP) support and guidance in due diligence matters in connection with corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations. Sarah’s experience includes a three-month secondment in Germany in the in-house legal department of a leading generic pharmaceuticals company, where she handled a full array of trademark prosecution matters, global brand portfolio management, and strategic clearance for a key worldwide product launch.

Sarah is a member of McDermott’s Pro Bono Committee, the Gender Diversity Committee, and the Orange County Recruiting Committee. Sarah is a regular contributor to McDermott’s IP Update blog.

She is also a member of our legal cannabis industry group. Our Cannabis Industry group is a multidisciplinary team of lawyers providing clients with regulatory, litigation, intellectual property, trade, and tax services with respect to their investments and participation in the cannabis industry, all subject to the firm’s obligations under federal and state laws and bar licensure rules.

Advises computer-related technology companies on strategic patent portfolio management and client counseling

Applies analytics and artificial intelligence to improve drafting and examination efficiency, and patent outcomes in USPTO patent prosecution

Counsels clients on patent program design, portfolio direction, and competitive patent positioning

Conducts patent due diligence for acquisitions and audits of IP assets and processes

Lisa M. Richman focuses her practice on international dispute resolution matters, with a particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and public international law.

She has experience representing clients in a broad range of matters, including in the areas of international commercial and investment arbitrations, securities enforcement, securities litigation, general commercial litigation disputes and insurance coverage.

Lisa’s clients have included investors, governments, corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in disputes seated in common law and civil law jurisdictions worldwide. Her work has included disputes conducted under ICC, ICSID, ICSID AF, AAA/ICDR, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS, DIS, LCIA, CPR, Swiss Rules and UNCITRAL Rules as well as pure ad-hoc arbitrations. She has handled disputes in a wide variety of industries with a particular focus on disputes relating to energy, oil and gas, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, infrastructure, licensing, securities, telecommunications, joint ventures and construction.

Lisa also has represented corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in international and domestic arbitrations and litigations in the US and around the world. Complementing her dispute resolution expertise, Lisa has managed internal investigations worldwide and has helped a variety of companies to resolve government investigations, including World Bank Sanctions proceedings. Lisa is listed on the arbitrator list of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), in the LCIA’s database of neutrals and is a member of the SIAC Users Counsel, the ITA Americas Committee and the DIS Rules Revision Committee. She is a native German speaker, and also speaks Spanish and French.

She has received recognition for her expertise as a dispute resolution specialist by, among others, Global Arbitration Review, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation, the Commercial Arbitration Expert Guide, the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer, Juve, Super Lawyers and Law360.

While in law school, Lisa was a notes and comments editor for The Tax Lawyer. Following law school, Lisa was a law clerk for the Honorable A. Franklin Burgess, Jr. of the District of Columbia Superior Court.

Christian Krohs is the European head of McDermott’s Antitrust Group and advises clients on all aspects of antitrust and competition law for more than 20 years. His practice includes representing clients in proceedings and litigation before German and EU antitrust authorities and courts, coordinating complex antitrust and merger projects before authorities worldwide, and handling compliance programs and investigations.

He has extensive experience, in particular, in relation to cartel investigations, cartel damages claims, as well as national, EU and international merger control projects. He has also advised numerous clients regarding questions of market dominance and its abuse as well as antitrust and anticorruption compliance.

Christian is an experienced lawyer who has spent many years in the antitrust and competition law departments of leaders international law firms in Germany, Brussels and London. He is a well-respected author of several publications and continues to comment on relevant topics of antitrust and competition law.