John J. Cannon, III

John Cannon is a partner in the Compensation, Governance & ERISA practice of Shearman & Sterling LLP and co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Governance Advisory Group. He joined the firm in 1985 after graduating from the New York University School of Law. Prior to law school, he graduated from Harvard College and spent two years teaching at The Browning School in New York City. In his practice, he focuses on all aspects of executive compensation and benefits, including advising companies and boards of directors on corporate, securities, bankruptcy, employment and tax laws and ERISA. He has extensive experience in management succession and other corporate governance matters, Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley, and the employee issues implicated in the mergers and acquisitions context, both domestic and cross-border. He is a frequent lecturer to professional organizations and law schools on executive compensation, corporate governance and legal ethics. Among his professional affiliations, Mr. Cannon is an Inaugural Fellow of the American College of Corporate Governance Counsel; a member of the American Law Institute and an Adviser to the Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance project; a member of the Advisory Committee, Salzburg Global Forum on Corporate Governance; and a member of the National Finance Industry Employment Lawyers’ Committee. At International House, Mr. Cannon also chairs the People Practice Committee.