Biography
Aron Lichtschein is an associate in Weil’s Technology & IP Transactions practice and is based in New York. Aron participates in advising Firm clients in a variety of matters relating to the licensing, acquisition, development, sale, use and commercial exploitation of intellectual property and technology. He also participates in advising clients regarding privacy and data security issues in the context of corporate transactions.
Aron received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he served as a Staff Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law and was awarded the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award. During law school, Aron won the Recording Academy’s 2023 Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Writing Competition and had an article titled “Tickets to Ride: NFTs and the Future of Concert Ticketing “ published in the American Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports Lawyer Section (Winter 2024). He received his B.B.A, magna cum laude, from Baruch College.
Aron has been part of the teams advising on the technology and intellectual property aspects, as well as on the data privacy and cybersecurity aspects of the following matters:
- ChampionX Corporation in its pending sale to SLB
- Core Scientific, Inc. in its $80 million first lien senior secured term loan facility upon emerging from chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
- The Home Depot in its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc.
- Seven2 and its portfolio company Vitaprotech Group SAS in its pending acquisition of the physical security, access card, and identity reader operations and assets of Identiv, Inc.
- Traliant Operating, LLC (a portfolio company of PSG) in its acquisition of Kantola Training Solutions