Ira Rothken is a High Technology Attorney, Entrepreneur, and Computer Technologist; Building Blockchain and NFT technology. He is a leading advisor and legal counsel to companies in the internet, entertainment, cloud services, blockchain, and videogame industries.
Ira has been the lead litigation counsel in numerous complex cases of first impression in the internet and high technology sectors often working with large legal teams nationally and globally.
In addition, Ira has been sought out by management teams who have asked him to help them establish new technology companies, develop legal strategies, and conduct business development activities.
Examples of the companies Ira has helped start as counsel include FriendFinder (Social Networking), Pandemic Studios (which he negotiated the spin-off from Activision and started the company), ArenaNet (The makers of Guild Wars in which he helped obtain the seed funding and started the company along with persons formally with Blizzard), Nihilistic (in which he negotiated multiple game development deals and started the company with former LucasArts employees), Telltale (in which he started the company with former LucasArts employees, negotiated numerous development deals, and helped obtain seed funding), etc.
Ira has developed widespread recognition for his willingness to work with management teams to develop successful growth strategies in new and sometimes risky e-business and electronic entertainment segments and his ability to be flexible in his approach to serving them on terms that make sense for their companies and growth trajectories.
He has appeared as a guest legal expert on television and radio including CNN (internet privacy), KQED radio (computer keyboard injuries), FOX (internet gambling), NBC (internet copyright), CBS (internet privacy), CNET radio (internet copyright), KTVU Silicon Valley Business Report (software license agreements), and Court TV (internet gambling issues and copyright litigation).
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