Andrew Hein / Partner Indianapolis

2013 - 2016 IAM Top 300 IP Strategist

Andrew Hein Andy Hein is a Partner at Crown Point Transactions, LLC and has decades of experience in the intellectual property and legal fields. Prior to forming Crown Point Transactions, Andy was an attorney in Sidley Austin LLP’s patent litigation group and an attorney at Skadden, Arps. Prior to becoming an attorney, Andy was a patent clerk for the McIntyre, Harbin & King LLP firm.

Education

Andy earned his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center, Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif honors, and his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Trine University, High Honors.

Here is a summary of his litigation, negotiation, and consulting experience:

Licensing and enforcing through litigation software patents for a Fortune 500 company
Representing as plaintiff at the trial and appellate level one of the world’s largest medical device manufacturers against several defendants involving technology worth over $2 billion per year for the client
Representing as plaintiff one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies in a Hatch-Waxman case against a generic drug manufacturer involving a product worth over $2.5 billion per year for the client
Valuing for investors patent portfolios for sale and concomitant litigation involving the portfolio patents in both standard and bankruptcy settings
Negotiating over $500 million of secured financing for creditors (including banks and funds) and borrowers in standard, out-of-court restructuring, and bankruptcy settings
Negotiating cross border, tax-sensitive financings involving multiple-layer, multiple-country special purpose vehicles
Consulting for one of the world’s largest telecommunications device companies on the largest telecommunications device cases in the last three years involving 3G standard essential and market essential patents (e.g., modulation, coding, and voice codecs)

Nick Stabinsky / Partner Chicago

2013 - 2016 IAM Top 300 IP Strategist

nstabinsky@crownpointtransactions.com

NIck Stabisky Nick Stabinsky is a Partner at Crown Point Transactions, LLC. Nick has over a decade of experience consulting to Fortune 1000 companies on both tactical and strategic IP issues. His work encompasses a spectrum of M&A due diligence, competitive intelligence, portfolio management, alternative litigation strategies, patent valuation, and patent monetization.

Has represented patent sellers on some of the most valuable patent portfolios in their respective industries and has acted as the lead representative for $100M+ portfolio acquisitions.

Education

Nick earned his Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law; his LLM in International Intellectual Property from the MIPLC at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Tax, and Competition Law; and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Pittsburgh.

Past engagements span a number of technologies, he has extensive experience in telecommunications, semiconductors, information technology, consumer electronics, and software.

Prior to Crown Point Transactions, Nick was the Managing Director of Red Chalk Group’s Patent Brokerage and Licensing Practice, where he successfully developed that practice from a new entrant to an established, internationally recognized brokerage and licensing company. At Red Chalk, Nick served a mix of Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, and financially distressed companies. Nick’s engagements focused on monetizing patent portfolios, creating large patent acquisition programs, and valuing patents.
Before Red Chalk, Nick was the Managing Consultant at IPIQ where he led a boutique IP consulting group serving Fortune 1000 companies. His engagements ranged from M&A due diligence, competitive analyses, strategic invention sessions, and portfolio management to alternative litigation strategies.

Successes

Crown Point’s Principals have achieved:

Over 3,000 patents sold
Successes

Crown Point’s Principals have achieved:

Over $100 Million dollars in sales
Successes

Crown Point’s Principals have achieved:

Over $300 Million dollars in acquisition advisory
Successes

Crown Point’s Principals have achieved:

Hundreds of patents licensed

Successfully monetized portfolios from 1,000’s of patents to just a few

Andrew Hein / Partner Indianapolis

Here is a summary of his litigation, negotiation, and consulting experience:

Nick Stabinsky / Partner Chicago

Past engagements span a number of technologies, he has extensive experience in telecommunications, semiconductors, information technology, consumer electronics, and software.

Successes

Crown Point’s Principals have achieved:

Over 3,000 patents sold

Successes

Crown Point’s Principals have achieved:

Over $100 Million dollars in sales

Successes

Crown Point’s Principals have achieved:

Over $300 Million dollars in acquisition advisory

Successes

Crown Point’s Principals have achieved:

Hundreds of patents licensed