Jamie Talbot focuses on high-profile IP transactional matters, including those arising from technology development and licensing, mergers and acquisitions, carve outs, outsourcing of business practices, information security and privacy projects.
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Work Highlights
Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:
- Liberty Mutual Insurance in the simultaneous sale of its Western Europe personal lines and small commercial insurance business to Generali, and its Latin American personal lines and small commercial insurance business to HDI International
- Zurich Insurance Group in its acquisition of AIG’s global personal travel insurance business
- The shareholders of Beats Electronics LLC in the sale of the company to Apple Inc.
- Skype Technologies in its acquisition by eBay and a member of its investor group in connection with its subsequent divestiture to Microsoft
- American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. in multiple transactions, including: its agreement with Jawbone to enable Jawbone customers to use Jawbone devices to make purchases with American Express payment products; and its agreement with LianLian Pay Inc. to permit LianLian to use American Express’s Serve platform in China
Education
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Boston College Law School, 1997 J.D.
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Trinity College, 1994 B.A. Political Science
James Talbot is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Intellectual Property and Private and Cybersecurity Practices. Based in the New York office, he focuses on high-profile IP transactional matters, including those arising from technology development and licensing, mergers and acquisitions, carve outs, outsourcing of business practices, information security and privacy projects.
Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:
- The shareholders of Beats Electronics LLC in the sale of the company to Apple Inc.
- Skype Technologies in its acquisition by eBay and a member of its investor group in connection with its subsequent divestiture to Microsoft
- American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. in multiple transactions, including: its agreement with Jawbone to enable Jawbone customers to use Jawbone devices to make purchases with American Express payment products; and its agreement with LianLian Pay Inc. to permit LianLian to use American Express’s Serve platform in China
- Spotify Technology S.A. in its acquisition of data analytics company, The Echo Nest Corporation
- Merck KGaA in the divestiture of its generic pharmaceutical business to Mylan Laboratories
- Pacific Century Group in its acquisition of asset manager Pinebridge Investments from American International Group
- McGraw-Hill Financial, Inc. in its outsourcing of information technology services to Atos IT Solutions and Services, Inc.
- Hartford Fire Insurance Company in outsourcing certain human resources functions to Fidelity Employer Services Company, LLC
- Capgemini North America, Inc. in a comprehensive, multibillion-dollar outsourcing arrangement with TXU Energy Company, LLC
- CME Group in its agreement with BM&FBOVESPA to develop a trading and order routing system for use in Brazil and internationally
- A major financial institution in the development of a platform for tracking securities
- Afilias Limited in the application for and launch of the .info top-level domain
- Telnic Limited in the application for, and launch and ongoing operation of, the .tel top-level domain
Jamie received his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1997 and his B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1994. He is admitted to practice in New York.