LES-SVC Webinar: 

IP Valuation in Special Situations - Part 4 of 4-Part Webinar Series:

"Uncovering the Full Value of IP Assets in Divorce Cases"

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. PT

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Program:

Speakers:
Efrat Kasznik, LES-SVC Chair, LES Board Member, President, Foresight Valuation Group   LinkedIn
Efrat is an IP valuation and strategy expert with more than 25 years of consulting experience assisting clients with the valuation, strategic management and monetization of their intellectual property and technologies. She is president of Foresight Valuation Group LLC – a Silicon Valley-based IP valuation and litigation consulting firm – as well as a start-up advisory firm. Efrat is also an appointed lecturer on IP management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), where she lectures on IP issues at the GSB’s MBA and executive education programs. Efrat specializes in analyzing IP and technology portfolios for a range of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, technology commercialization and business liquidations. She frequently testifies as an expert witness in legal cases involving damages or valuations of intellectual property and start-ups, as well as in high net worth divorce cases involving the valuation of intangible assets and technology startups. Efrat has been listed on the IAM 300 list of World Leading IP Strategists every year since 2013. She is actively involved in leadership roles with LES USA-Canada, where she currently serves as a board member, in addition to serving as Chair of the LES Silicon Valley chapter.

November LES Silicon Valley Chapter In-Person Event

“Royalty Compliance in the Age of AI: Audits, Disputes, and the Contracts That Matter”

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Registration, Lunch & Networking
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Program
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Post-Session Networking

Location: KPMG Silicon Valley Office

2755 Augustine Drive, Suite 701
Santa Clara, CA 95054

Thank you to our meeting sponsor:

Speakers & Moderator

Braden Weatherhead, Managing Director, KPMG Advisory / IP Compliance  LinkedIn

Braden is a Managing Director and KPMG’s commercial line of business leader for contract compliance. He has over sixteen years of experience in providing royalty audit services to multinational organizations in a variety of industries including High Technology, Semiconductors, Consumer Products, Diagnostics, and Pharmaceuticals.  Braden has deep experience in helping to establish and execute global contract compliance programs combining elements of data analytics, royalty monitoring, audit targeting and remediation. He has led the development of cloud-based data aggregation, monitoring and executive dashboard tool to help better identify licensee compliance issues which range from erroneous reporting, low royalty payment and fraud. He has significant experience successfully managing relationships between potentially contentious third parties in an audit environment. Braden is also well versed in performing advanced data analytics and has developed analytical tools to implement proactive monitoring solutions leveraging third party data.  All together, these programs have resulted in the identification of over $300 million in overpaid rebates & discounts while strengthening contract lifecycle management and strategy.  Braden is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the AICPA.

Michael Zachary, Partner, Bunsow De Mory LLP LinkedIn 

Michael is a trusted legal strategist for IP enforcement and defense, with deep litigation experience across licensing disputes and royalty underpayment cases. As a partner at Bunsow De Mory, Michael focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and licensing, and regularly represents clients in patent infringement, trade secret, trademark and other intellectual property litigation cases. He counsels clients on a variety of technology and intellectual property agreements, including design and development, manufacturing and supply, product evaluation, and patent and trademark license agreements. He has represented large, mid-size, and start-up companies based in the United States, Japan and Europe, including Volkswagen, Bradium, Skype, Amazon, Wacom, PRISM Pharma and Boston Scientific. In 2016 and 2017, he was recognized as a California “IP Star” by Managing Intellectual Property. He is also a cellist who performs with two local orchestras and with area chamber groups.

Moderator: Michael Pierantozzi, Co-Chair and Board Member, LES-SVC (IAM Strategy 300)  LinkedIn

Based in Silicon Valley, Michael is a technology and intellectual property (Tech/IP) entrepreneur, strategist and transaction expert. Andiamo Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in Tech/IP business catalyzing and monetizing matters. Previously, Michael was responsible for strategic business development, including sales, acquisitions, and licensing for the IP Licensing group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and served as Director of KPMG's IP Consulting practice. Previously, Michael held executive leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) including HPE, Intellectual Ventures (IV), IPotential, and an IP transaction data services startup that he co-founded. Since 2009, Michael has been recognized by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine in their IAM 300 rankings as one of the “World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists”. He is a frequent speaker at Tech/IP industry events in the US, Europe, and Asia, and has delivered IP management seminars at Stanford University.

Registration

Free for LES Members and Guests. Register Now

Thank You to Our Host and Sponsor

 We are grateful to our longtime LES-SVC community partners at KPMG for hosting this important conversation for the third consecutive year. Their leadership in shaping dialogue around IP management and licensing revenue compliance continues to elevate the IP ecosystem in Silicon Valley.

Past LES-SVC Events at KPMG:

• Nov. 2024: From Problem to Profit: AI-Driven Innovation and Licensing
• May 2023: Sharing the Benefits of Federally Funded and Academic R&D Investments with the Private Sector

LES-SVC Webinar Meeting: 

IP Valuation in Special Situations - Part 4 of 4-Part Webinar Series:

"Unlocking Value in the Digital & AI Economy"

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. PT

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Program:

Reading materials: "Closing the intangible valuation gap in M&A deal pricing" (IAM Media, Oct. 7, 2024).

Speakers:
Efrat Kasznik, LES-SVC Chair, LES Board Member, President, Foresight Valuation Group   LinkedIn
Efrat is an IP valuation and strategy expert with more than 25 years of consulting experience assisting clients with the valuation, strategic management and monetization of their intellectual property and technologies. She is president of Foresight Valuation Group LLC – a Silicon Valley-based IP valuation and litigation consulting firm – as well as a start-up advisory firm. Efrat is also an appointed lecturer on IP management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), where she lectures on IP issues at the GSB’s MBA and executive education programs. Efrat specializes in analyzing IP and technology portfolios for a range of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, technology commercialization and business liquidations. She frequently testifies as an expert witness in legal cases involving damages or valuations of intellectual property and start-ups, as well as in high net worth divorce cases involving the valuation of intangible assets and technology startups. Efrat has been listed on the IAM 300 list of World Leading IP Strategists every year since 2013. She is actively involved in leadership roles with LES USA-Canada, where she currently serves as a board member, in addition to serving as Chair of the LES Silicon Valley chapter.

 Lynn Dudinsky, LES-Connecticut Chair, Vice President, Foresight Valuation Group LinkedIn

Lynn Dudinsky is Vice President of Foresight Valuation Group, an IP valuation, strategy, and economic consulting firm, where he has worked for the past decade to support clients in their development of an active approach to managing their intangible assets. Mr. Dudinsky’s work encompasses all areas where intellectual property and technology valuation is needed and has included M&A support, Investor/Startup support, Litigation services and Digital Asset valuations such as cryptocurrencies and other blockchain technologies.  Prior to joining Foresight, Mr. Dudinsky worked for the patenting group of Samsung Research America in Silicon Valley, where he performed research and evaluated inventions originating from Samsung’s labs and supported the efforts to secure global IP protection for Samsung, while interacting with cutting edge technology, many of which was in the wearable, software and IoT space. He also drafted patent applications and interacted with the USPTO while working for a patent prosecution firm during his time at Santa Clara School of Law.