Back to the AI Future: Tech+IP Commences Coverage of AI Leaders and Launches AI-Native Platform to Serve IP Markets, Deep-Tech Innovators, and AI Leaders

[NEW YORK, NEW YORK] – Founded in 2013 and spun out of Houlihan Lokey (NYSE: HLI) in 2020, Tech+IP has been pioneering IP and deep-tech transactions for over a decade. Behind the scenes, the firm has also been quietly developing a powerful AI-native platform and advising a new wave of “AI-first” clients.For Tech+IP, AI isn’t…

November 5, 2025

Industry Veteran Jim Harlan Joins TIP-X as CEO

Jim is a licensed patent attorney who has built his career at the intersection of innovation, intellectual property, and global technology markets.

October 8, 2025

Tech+IP Leaders Recognized Among the World’s Top Intellectual Property Experts in IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders 2025

Four of Tech+IP leadership team members have been recognized by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) in the 2025 edition of IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders.

August 22, 2025

Three Tech+IP Team Members Make IAM Global Top 300

We’re pleased to have three of our team, Ed Fish, Elvir Causevic and Chuck Fish, recognized in IAM’s most recent Global Top 300 List and both honored and humbled to be the only advisory firm with multiple team members in both the top 40 Market Makers of 2023 and in the 2024 hashtag#IAMStrategy300.

August 21, 2024

Access Advance and Tech+IP Announce an Agreement to Explore the Formation of a Smart Home Licensing Program

[BOSTON] – (June 11, 2024) – Access Advance (“Advance”), together with boutique investment bank Tech+IP (www.techip.cc), today announced an agreement to explore an initiative connecting patent owners and implementers in the IoT market that comprises smart home devices and services.

June 11, 2024

Tech+IP Advises Avaya on the Largest Patent Sale Since Early 2023

Arlington Technologies, a subsidiary of Dominion Harbor Group, a leading patent licensing organization, announced last week that it had acquired 1,500 patent assets related to the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology widely used in the industry today by telephony providers, enterprise collaboration solutions, and leading consumer social networks, as reported in the IAM Magazine.

April 9, 2024

IAM Joins the Conversation About 4G/5G SEPs as Global Assets

Following the release of Tech+IP’s 2021 “4G/5G SEP Market Report and Analysis” IAM, the recognized global IP business media platform weighed in. In its March 2, 2021 article entitled “New data sheds light on the globalization of SEPs, Jacob Schindler recounts many of the important aspects of the analysis and states: “Most interesting though, is what Tech+IP shows is going on in emerging markets that are crucial to global smartphone sales.”

March 11, 2021

PR Newswire Breaks the News on the Launch of Tech+IP

PR Newswire breaks the news about new firm Tech+IP Capital, LLC. Co-Founded by Elvir Causecvic & Ed Fish (former Co-Leads of Houlihan Lokey’s Tech+IP Advisory Division), Tech+IP was created to address the increasing need in IP markets, ventures and transactions for a wider range of solutions and structures to create value.

April 27, 2020

Leading Bankers Launch Tech+IP Capital

San Francisco, CA and Washington DC –(Business Wire)– Elvir Causevic and Ed Fish, formerly Co-Heads of Houlihan Lokey’s Tech+IP Advisory Group, formed by acquisition over three years ago of their boutique investment bank, announced today the launch of Tech+IP Capital™ LLC (“Tech+IP Capital”). The new firm recognizes the increasing need in IP markets, ventures and transactions for a wider range of solutions and structures to create value.

April 27, 2020

Houlihan Lokey Patent Team Set to Depart

The IP and tech advisory group at Houlihan Lokey is leaving the financial institution, IAM has learned, with plans taking shape to re-launch once again as an independent operation.

March 26, 2020

Effectively Discharging Fiduciary Duties in IP-Rich M&A Transactions

Co-Founder & Managing Director Elvir Causevic had his article “Effectively Discharging Fiduciary Duties in IP-Rich M7A Transactions” published in the Berkeley Business Law Journal.

November 26, 2019

Why Should Small – and Medium-Sized Companies (SMEs) Care About Building a Patent Portfolio?

For the Autumn 2019 issue of IAM, Elvir Causevic sat down for a Q&A on why small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) should prioritize developing a patent portfolio, best practices for SMEs (in pursuing a robust patent portfolio), and the risks of “inviting trouble” by not taking this important defensive step.

October 7, 2019