Arlene Hahn is a corporate counsel in the Technology & IP Transactions group of the Corporate Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Ms. Hahn represents clients in a variety of intellectual property and technology matters, with particular experience in licensing, corporate, transactions, counseling, and prosecution.
Ms. Hahn has worked on the teams advising Lehman Brothers and General Motors on a wide range of technology and intellectual property matters in connection with their bankruptcy filings, which are among the largest in US history. Ms. Hahn was a member of the team which represented The Walt Disney Corporation in connection with its acquisition of Marvel Entertainment, NBC Universal in connection with its acquisitions of the Weather Channel and Oxygen, and Providence Equity Partners in connection with its strategic investment in Hulu.com. Ms. Hahn also counsels clients with respect to outsourcing needs, rights under existing agreements and the development of new technologies. In addition, Ms. Hahn has worked extensively in intellectual property disputes involving claims of trademark infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, and copyright infringement.
In 2006, Ms. Hahn was seconded to work as in-house counsel for Panasonic’s IP Rights Operations Company in Osaka, Japan, where she was part of a group that advised Panasonic on IP-related licenses and commercial transactions. Ms. Hahn has lectured on the intellectual property aspects of complex commercial transactions at the ATLAS Information Group seminar for corporate counsel on “Negotiating and Drafting Major Commercial Agreements."
Ms. Hahn joined Weil as a summer associate in 1999. Ms. Hahn graduated from the New York University School of Law in 2000, where she was an associate editor of the New York University Law Review. Ms. Hahn graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 with a B.S. in Biology and concentration in writing.
Ms. Hahn is admitted to practice in the state court of New York as well as in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.