Holland & Knight Autonomous Vehicles & Connected Transportation

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES & CONNECTED TRANSPORTATION

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At Holland & Knight, our attorneys and professionals help clients seize opportunities and overcome challenges where new technologies and established industries converge. We understand the business and legal nuances of the transportation and technology industries and how their players operate, providing our clients with comprehensive insight on what it takes to compete in today’s evolving marketplace.

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE INSIDER PERSPECTIVE

Members of our Technology & Telecommunications and Transportation & Infrastructure Industry Sector Groups have key government and industry backgrounds. Our teams include:

ƒ former members of Congress with transportation, technology and telecommunications policy experience

ƒ a former general counsel of the National Transportation Safety Board

ƒ a former general counsel of a leading software company

ƒ software and mechanical engineers

ƒ a senior patent litigator who developed some of the earliest autonomous vehicle technology while working as a software engineer at a Tier 1 auto supplier before attending law school

ƒ a senior patent prosecutor who was a software engineer for a Tier 1 auto supplier before becoming a lawyer

Holland & Knight attorneys have extensive experience in the technology industry and in-depth understanding of the older industries new technologies are disrupting.

There are more than 200 lawyers in our Industry Sector Groups, encompassing all relevant legal and policy disciplines.

Our team has represented leading clients in the transportation, technology and telecommunications, and energy industries throughout the 20th century and into the 21st.

AT THE FOREFRONT OF TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY

Few firms have handled a broader range of matters in the emerging transportation technology space. Our experience includes advising leading and emerging technology, telecommunications and transportation companies on the following:

Business model development

Data security and privacy Corporate formation, financing, and mergers and acquisitions

Spectrum acquisition and other telecommunications regulatory matters

Intellectual property development, protection and commercialization

Insurance and risk management issues

Land use, real estate development, and environmental matters

Federal, state and local policy and regulatory matters

Product liability counseling and defense work

A TEAM YOU CAN DEPEND ON

THE HOLLAND & KNIGHT COMMITMENT

Our mission is to provide seamless, efficient and valuable client-centric services over a wide range of industries. Collaboration across practices and offices, along with highly focused management of matters and cases, enables us to deliver dynamic legal support, regardless of location.

PUT OUR EXPERIENCE TO WORK FOR YOU

We have vast experience related to autonomous vehicles (AV). Call on our team for comprehensive, practical guidance on all of your needs in the transportation technology arena. For example, our work includes representing:

a major original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in the development and launch of an on-demand mobility service and forge a partnership with a smartphone app-enabled car rental startup

one of the world’s largest captive automobile finance companies in the formation of an international joint venture that collects, processes and monetizes automobile telematics data

a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology-affiliated entrepreneurs in their pursuit to bring DARPA Urban Challenge award-winning AV technology to market

a major transportation network provider (TNP) in litigation and regulatory matters throughout the United States

a leading AV company in navigating the legal landscape and advocating before Congress and federal government agencies

AV companies in the development of test plans and obtaining of permits to put test vehicles on the street

a voice recognition company in its pursuit to penetrate the transportation sector

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a leading AV shuttle company on U.S. federal regulatory and exemption issues

startups and large companies in the development and monetization of leading mapping and geolocation technologies, including intellectual property (IP) protection, licensing transactions, and mergers and acquisitions transactions cumulatively representing several billion dollars in enterprise value telecommunications carriers and wireless network providers, major telecommunications equipment companies and semiconductor companies in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceedings, data security and privacy matters, and IP prosecution and litigation matters related to the emerging 5G standard that will support V2V and V2I transmission, as well as all other Internet of Things (IoT) era systems

major telecommunications carriers, municipal governments and other entities in order to conceptualize and implement Smart City programs, of which autonomous transportation is a major component

Joel E. Roberson

Partner | Washington, D.C.

617.305.2121

jeff.seul@hklaw.com

202.663.7264

joel.roberson@hklaw.com