Hilco IP Advisory

Hilco IP Advisory helps organisations understand, protect, and realise value from their intellectual property and wider intangible assets. Based in the UK and operating globally, we support companies preparing for investment, exit, or commercial growth by ensuring their IP strategies align with business objectives.

How We Help

Hilco IP Advisory helps organisations understand, protect, and realise value from their intellectual property and wider intangible assets. Based in the UK and operating globally, we support companies preparing for investment, exit, or commercial growth by ensuring their IP strategies align with business objectives.

We provide practical, commercially focused support across the full IP lifecycle — from strategy and portfolio analysis through to valuation, transactions, and monetisation.

Whether you’re building a portfolio, preparing for a deal, or responding to a special situation, we help you make confident decisions and maximise IP-driven value.

  • Align IP with business goals
  • Protect and strengthen innovation, brand & data
  • Support investment, M&A, and restructuring
  • Benchmark IP portfolios
  • Unlock Patent Box tax benefits
  • Monetise IP via licensing/sale

Our Approach

Hilco IP Advisory provides strategic, operational, transactional and investment IP Advisory services across a wide range of sectors – helping organisations better understand, manage, and extract value from their intangible assets.

Backed by Hilco Global’s commercial track record and deep experience in asset valuation and realisation, we offer practical, insight-led support designed to create measurable business impact. Whether working with in-house IP teams, corporate leadership, founders, investors or restructuring professionals, we help ensure IP is treated not just as a legal asset, but as a driver of enterprise value.

Our services cover the full IP lifecycle and are structured around three core pillars:

IP Strategy

  • Clarifying the role of IP in value creation.
  • Aligning IP with commercial and investment objectives.
  • Identifying and protecting innovations.

IP Operations

  • Scalable processes and governance frameworks.
  • Cross-functional alignment across legal, technical, commercial.
  • Due diligence and tax incentive readiness.

IP Transactions & Investments

  • IP due diligence for investors.
  • Valuation, monetisation, licensing.
  • Buyer/partner mapping and asset sales.

By working with Hilco IP Advisory, you gain access to strategic insight and executional support that helps position your business and its IP, for sustained growth, stronger returns, and competitive advantage.

Our Services

Strategic IP Advisory services tailored to your commercial objectives.

Hilco IP Advisory provides a full range of services designed to help organisations unlock the value of their intellectual property and intangible assets. From IP valuation and due diligence to licensing strategy, portfolio development, and transaction support, we deliver commercially focused advice across the full IP lifecycle.

We support businesses of all sizes, from venture-backed startups to multinational corporates, as well as private equity, venture capital, and restructuring professionals. Whether you need targeted input to complement your internal team or a fully outsourced IP Advisory solution, our approach is practical, flexible, and grounded in business outcomes.

We have a particular specialism in helping companies and their investors maximise IP value in exit, investment, and M&A scenarios, where clear communication of IP value can materially influence deal terms.

Our services are delivered across a wide range of industries and technologies, with tailored support that aligns with your strategic priorities.

Expertise You Can Trust

Hilco IP Advisory brings together deep expertise in IP strategy, operations, and transactions with a strong commercial focus. Our senior team has backgrounds in global IP consulting, complex litigation, licensing, corporate M&A, and distressed asset recovery, supported by experience across law, engineering, finance, and business transformation.

We collaborate closely with Hilco Streambank and Hilco Merchant Banking, giving clients access to extensive market insight, resources, and capabilities across the full IP and transaction spectrum.

This combined strength enables a pragmatic, results-driven approach to unlocking IP value. We’ve supported listed corporates, high-growth startups, private equity and venture capital firms, and restructuring professionals across sectors including technology, financial services, life sciences, automotive, consumer goods, energy, and manufacturing.

With a proven track record in both stable and distressed environments, Hilco IP Advisory is a trusted partner for organisations looking to protect, position, and realise the value of their intangible assets.

Contacts

Get in touch to discuss your requirements for your specific asset valuation and sales solution.

Jack Hopwood

Associate Director

Intellectual Property

London Office

+44 (0) 7394 802810

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Steve Kerr

Senior Director

Intellectual Property

London Office

+44 (0) 7720 160356

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Alexander Muir

Associate Director

Intellectual Property

Manchester Office

+44 (0) 7593 562917

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Karl Maersch

Senior Vice President

Intellectual Property

US Office

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Adam Snyder

Senior Patent Analyst

Intellectual Property

US Office

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Michael Friedman

Executive Director

Technology Patent

US Office

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