SAN FRANCISCO—The Recorder has named Covington partner Ingrid Rechtin to its list of “2017 Women Leaders in Tech Law.” This annual recognition commemorates “recent outstanding work by California-based lawyers whose practices focus on technology companies and issues.”
In its profile of Ms. Rechtin, the publication highlights her representation of Sanofi in connection with a joint venture with Verily Life Sciences and of Microsoft in various strategic transactions, including its $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business.
Resident in the firm’s San Francisco office, Ms. Rechtin provides strategic legal advice to companies in the life sciences, technology, clean tech, and fintech sectors, ranging from start-ups to global corporations. Her experience includes financings, corporate venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. She has also advised on numerous strategic investments in IP, acquisitions and divestitures of patent portfolios, and complex patent monetization transactions.