Rauer manages deals for the development, protection, licensing, and other commercialization of information technology (IT), IT outsourcing, web-based services, cleantech, and other technologies, and the manufacture, procurement and distribution of technology products and services.
His Internet experience includes web-site and application development, hosting, and maintenance arrangements, co-marketing, content acquisition, and customer sale transactions.
Rauer also advises clients in franchising goods and services through networks of retail operations. This includes designing franchise systems, compliance with state and federal laws regulating sale, termination and changes of franchises, agreement and disclosure documentation, as well as the legitimate avoidance of the franchise laws where appropriate.