Alexander M. "Alex" Brown

Alex Brown is a member of Dickinson Wright in Columbus, Ohio. He practices business transactional law, with an emphasis on advising privately-held and venture-capital backed companies in capital raising, mergers & acquisitions, and transactions involving technology, software, outsourcing, electronic commerce and intellectual property. He serves as outside counsel to a number of companies, from startup software businesses to national healthcare technology companies. Other areas of his practice include intellectual property asset protection, privacy and data security, emerging business and complex transactions. He counsels clients in business entity selection and formation, protection and commercialization of technology assets, conducting business online, utilizing distributed ledger/blockchain technology, and data security issues. Alex has represented an international publicly-held entity in negotiating and drafting enterprise-wide software, hardware, outsourcing and service agreements with a variety of large and small vendors and a privately-held technology company in licensing its proprietary software as a service (SAAS) solution to its national and international customers. He also has closed several M&A transactions, on both the buyer and seller sides, ranging from $1M to $100M in deal size. Alex also represents several venture capital funds in their investments into scalable technology companies.