Bruce J Goldner

Practice Areas

Bruce Goldner’s principal areas of concentration include mergers and acquisitions, licensing, financing and counseling involving brands, consumer products, designs, technology, software, social media, content and persona rights, and strategic commercial agreements, including research and development, manufacture, supply, distribution, logistics and services agreements.

For many years, Mr. Goldner served as head of the firm’s New York office, co-head of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group, and chair of the New York office’s Diversity Committee. He currently serves as a chair of Skadden’s firmwide Pro Bono Committee.

Professional Memberships

Member, International Trademark Association (INTA); Advisory Board Member (Intellectual Property and Technology), Practical Law Company

Personal

In recognition of his extensive pro bono work assisting nonprofit organizations with intellectual property matters, Mr. Goldner was honored by the Lawyers Alliance for New York with a 2022 Cornerstone Award. He has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and named a Star (in both IP and Transactions) by Managing Intellectual Property, which also recognized him as a finalist for Practitioner of the Year in its IP Transactions category in 2024. Mr. Goldner also has been selected to the WTR 1000 by World Trademark Review as a leading U.S. and worldwide trademark practitioner, as well as named to Intellectual Asset Management’s IAM Patent 1000, where he is described as a “master at executing a deep dive into target and competitor portfolios, formulating strategies, structuring deals and successfully negotiating them.”

Experience

Law Clerk, Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1993-1994)

Education