Karl P. Kilb III is a member of Dunnington’s Corporate, Technology, Privacy and Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property and Employment practice groups. Mr. Kilb is an entrepreneurial leader and corporate lawyer with more than 30 years of business and legal experience, advising companies of all sizes – from start-ups to large international corporations – in developing, monetizing, and implementing intellectual property, including emerging technologies, multimedia content, artificial intelligence, and blockchain.
Mr. Kilb advises on agreements, intellectual property, regulatory issues, strategic planning, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, data protection & privacy, cybersecurity, insurance policies, pre-publication review, and university curricula, among other areas.
Mr. Kilb has extensive experience negotiating and enforcing agreements, including enterprise sales and technology development/licensing deals. He serves as an extension of a company’s C-Suite and legal and compliance department, suggesting strategies, finding creative solutions, mitigating risks, and resolving disputes. He leverages his lifetime of experience with negotiation, technology, and regulatory analysis to serve as a panelist with the American Arbitration Association.
Mr. Kilb also assists companies with a thorough review of their risk framework, including an analysis of their agreements and insurance policies.
Former Bloomberg LP General Counsel
Mr. Kilb spent 22 years at Bloomberg LP, including more than 15 years as the company’s first General Counsel. There, he pioneered new forms of media, data aggregation & analytics, electronic trading, and other innovations. At Bloomberg, Mr. Kilb started, built and managed a global Legal and Compliance Department that supported all aspects of Bloomberg’s global businesses, including data, analytics, multimedia news, and electronic trading. Based in New York, he traveled worldwide to negotiate agreements with customers, including major financial institutions, as well as with data providers, software companies, manufacturers, broadcast networks, facilities, and others during the company’s biggest growth years.
Mr. Kilb worked on the company’s $4.4 billion acquisition of a minority interest in Bloomberg LP from Merrill Lynch, an early investor, as well as Bloomberg LP acquisitions and integrations that included The Bureau of National Affairs from an independent company, BusinessWeek Magazine from the McGraw-Hill Companies, and New Energy Finance from its founder.
Mr. Kilb was a registered securities principal for more than twelve years, serving as a founding Compliance Officer for Bloomberg Tradebook, an electronic trading system offering agency brokerage services that is a subsidiary of Bloomberg LP. Mr. Kilb has extensive experience working with regulators and advising on regulatory compliance. Mr. Kilb served as Risk Manager and managed the parent company’s insurance policies for many years. He also worked on aspects of Bloomberg Law, including its implementation in law schools.
Emerging Tech Expertise
Mr. Kilb has spent a lifetime immersing himself in new technologies – including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cybersecurity. He has deep experience negotiating and drafting a wide range of technology, licensing and subscription agreements, analyzing regulatory requirements and industry standards. He helps companies to develop and implement strategies and policies & procedures for intellectual property (development, protection and monetization), enterprise sales agreements, service agreements and other standardized contracts, contracting processes, and corporate governance. He has advised companies on litigation, arbitration, and mediation matters, particularly in relation to contractual disputes, and became a panelist with AAA in 2026.
Mr. Kilb regularly lectures on legal, business development, and entrepreneurial issues, including at the Fordham University School of Law, where he is Founder & Chairman of the Entrepreneurial Law Advisory Council and has taught Topics in Entrepreneurial Law since 2014, and at NYU, serving as a board member and mentor with the Lawyers Alumni Mentoring Program since its inception in 1997. He previously created and taught a course called New Media Law and Content Creation at NYU and has participated as a judge and mentor in entrepreneurial activities at Yale University and Babson College, among others.
Media Law
As a former journalist and long-time media lawyer, Mr. Kilb is uniquely positioned to advise the media industry on all aspects of content creation, pre-publication review, defamation, privacy, distribution, syndication, talent agreements, and other issues. He represents journalists in contract negotiations with major television networks and other media. Prior to becoming a lawyer in 1995, Mr. Kilb was a broadcast journalist with CNBC, Financial News Network, 1010 WINS Radio and Bloomberg, among others, and received awards for his reporting.
Background
Mr. Kilb is a member of the board of the Fordham Law School Alumni Association and of the St. Joseph Regional High School (Montvale, New Jersey) Hall of Fame as an outstanding alumnus and benefactor. He sits on the Boards of Directors of private corporations and has been involved with several non-profit organizations.
Mr. Kilb is a co-founder of Crescite Innovation Corporation, a company dedicated to the intersection of faith and technology, and has had a lifetime commitment to Catholic churches, schools, and causes.
Mr. Kilb holds a JD from the Fordham University School of Law, where he was a member of the university’s Intellectual Property Law Journal (IPLJ), publishing an article on Patent Arbitration. The IPLJ office is named after him. Mr. Kilb received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University, graduating magna cum laude, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to practice in New York State and before the U.S. Supreme Court.
