DE LA PEÑA & HOLIDAY

Whether you are resolving a dispute, starting a company, inventing intellectual property, or conducting just about any kind of business, we at de la Peña & Holiday welcome you. We will strive to make your experience with us more valuable, efficient, and enriching than the many alternative legal resources available today. We know you care about results, and we will not stop fighting for them.

de la Peña & Holiday has offices in 3 major metropolitan centers around the United States; San Francisco, Los Angeles and Tampa Bay and are always looking to expand our footprint wherever we are needed.

OUR EXPERTISE
Appellate; Business; Construction; Emerging Companies; Entertainment; Insurance; Litigation; Real Estate; Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions; Cyberliability.

COMMUNITY
We believe in giving back and benefitting the communities where we live and work. Our firm has a long and proud tradition of providing leadership, financial support and pro bono services to charitable and community organizations throughout California, Florida and beyond our borders. This commitment is demonstrated both individually by our attorneys and staff members, and together as a firm. Whether we are providing support to local food banks, non-profit organizations assisting families, health and wellness causes, education advancement in underprivileged communities, and animal rights causes.

de la Peña & Holiday is committed to the betterment of our community. de la Peña & Holiday is a minority and woman-owned firm and as such we are committed to promoting diversity within our firm and throughout the legal profession. We are steadfast in creating opportunities for lawyers of all backgrounds, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, or beliefs. Our purpose is to attract, retain and promote exceptional lawyers who reflect the global interests and communities that we serve. We strive to achieve greater diversity and inclusivity, as we deem it vital to our understanding, growth and success.

BRENT C. J. BRITTON
Brent C. J. Britton is a technology lawyer in de la Peña & Holiday’s San Francisco and Tampa offices and is the managing partner of the Tampa office. He focuses on emerging companies, intellectual property, and technology transactions.

For the past 20 years, Brent C.J. Britton has been assisting entrepreneurs and technology companies of all sizes in corporate and intellectual property transactions. A dot-com era Silicon Valley veteran, Britton’s legal career has included tours of duty in several major firms in San Francisco, New York City, and Tampa. In his third year out of law school, Britton founded the noted San Francisco technology law firm, Britton, Silberman & Cervantez, LLP, which was later acquired by Thelen Reid & Priest, LLP. Britton has been a prominent voice for the cultivation of Tampa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem while maintaining strong roots in the San Francisco Bay Area’s emerging companies community.

Britton’s clients range from startups to international conglomerates in the fields of digital media and software development, video games, education, mechanical devices, entertainment, telecommunications, healthcare, and nanotechnology. Britton’s legal work covers a full range of services of value to technology companies, such as corporate formation, venture funding, technology licensing and transactions, intellectual property strategy and prosecution (patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets), due diligence and auditing, innovation lifecycle management, mergers & acquisitions, website policies and terms of service, sweepstakes and gambling rules and procedures, employment agreements, and regulatory advice.

While in law school in the early 90’s, Britton clerked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A former computer scientist and software engineer, Britton is the only lawyer who holds a graduate degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. Alongside his Master of Science from MIT, Britton also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Maine and a Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of Law. Britton is admitted to practice law in California, New York, and Florida. Britton is an adjunct professor of Creativity and Innovation at the University of South Florida, he is the co-founder of several startups, and he writes and speaks frequently on entrepreneurship, creativity, ethics, and the philosophy of happiness and success. Britton’s book, “Ownability,” an introduction to intellectual property law for entrepreneurs, is available on amazon.com.

400 North Tampa St.
Suite 2840
Tampa, FL 33602
Phone: (813) 452 2000
Fax: (813) 489 2520
www.dlphlaw.com