John Scanlon

John Scanlon provides legal advice and services on business development, financing and operations; legal and corporate affairs; strategic corporate events, including mergers, acquisitions and partnerships; contract negotiation, drafting and administration; litigation and dispute resolution; and intellectual property issues. His clients include technology and media businesses, film and television financing, production, broadcasting and distribution companies, investment, asset management and consulting firms, nonprofits, educational institutions, and individual authors, speakers and artists.

John has helped launch, finance and operate several businesses, and advises clients from individuals to multinationals on a wide range of legal matters. He was the founding general counsel of an online trading platform owned by Deutsche Bank, Reuters and Battery Ventures; of a bank holding company; and of an online media company. He also served as chief operating officer of a trade association owned by the six largest US pharmaceutical companies.

John began his legal career in Washington, D.C. and London at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he advised on securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. At Latham & Watkins, John specialized in capital markets transactions. John earned his J.D. at Georgetown, where he was associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, and his B.A. from the University of California, Davis (Phi Beta Kappa).