Matthew D. Berger is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings where he is the Chair of the firm's Technology Transactions practice. His practice focuses on complex technology transactions and intellectual property counseling and advice, generally for clients in high technology industries such as the semiconductor, life sciences, and alternative energy industries.

Mr. Berger has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting agreements for the development, licensing, production, supply, and support of semiconductors and other hardware; software and data; pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical devices and systems; and multimedia and entertainment products and content. Mr. Berger has negotiated agreements for the protection and transfer of copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and other intellectual property, and has litigated copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, royalty, and domain name claims and disputes.

In addition, Mr. Berger represents technology, life sciences and media and entertainment companies in financings, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures, and other corporate structuring. He also represents emerging technology companies and ventures in entity formation, and is experienced in structuring and negotiating angel and venture financing.

Mr. Berger has particular experience in the semiconductor and computer hardware area. He has advised clients with regard to, and has negotiated and drafted agreements for, the development and licensing of semiconductor process technology and cores, SIP, and other semiconductor designs; the purchase and sale of semiconductor tooling and equipment; the manufacturing, packaging and testing, distribution, sale and other commercialization of semiconductor products; and the manufacturing, assembly, testing, distribution, sale and other commercialization of servers, personal computers, handheld devices and other hardware. Mr. Berger has also advised clients with regard to, and has negotiated and drafted agreements for, mergers and acquisitions of semiconductor and other hardware companies and joint ventures for the development of semiconductor process technology and designs, the construction of fabs, the manufacturing of semiconductor products, the design, development, manufacturing and assembly, distribution and sale of servers and other types of computers, and the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and sale of high end switches and routers.

Mr. Berger is admitted to practice in California.