Merrill Baumann is Of Counsel at Dunn Carney and a member of the Corporate Counsel team. He also leads Dunn Carney’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice group.  His twenty-five -year practice has focused on corporate and transactional matters for local, national, and international clients in dozens of different industries.

Merrill specializes in representing clients with substantial intellectual property assets, including software developers, production companies, advertising and branding agencies, performers, and artists.  His work for these clients includes licensing and brand management advice (including trademark and copyright prosecution and enforcement), along with general corporate, transactional, and M & A advice.  Merrill also has an active practice in the climate change field as general outside counsel to one of the nation’s largest purchasers and sellers of greenhouse gas offsets.  Merrill has a deep understanding of climate change-related laws, policies, and business trends.

Prior to joining the firm, Merrill was a partner with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Portland, Oregon.  He also served as general counsel to, and corporate attorney with, Graham & James LLP (now Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP) in Los Angeles and Tokyo before he moved to Oregon.  As general counsel, he was responsible for all risk management, loss control and professional responsibility matters for the 400+ lawyer firm.