Boyd Johnson

Leveraging three decades of public and private sector experience, Boyd Johnson provides strategic counseling to companies, boards of directors, and senior executives in their most significant and sensitive investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters. Over the past three decades, Mr. Johnson has served in a variety of senior roles, including as global general counsel for Soros Fund Management, the investment management firm founded by George Soros; the co-chair of WilmerHale’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice; and the Deputy US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. A skilled trial lawyer who has tried numerous cases to verdict and managed litigation matters in-house as a general counsel, Mr. Johnson is uniquely positioned to bring high-stakes disputes to positive resolutions for clients. Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, and The Legal 500 have consistently recognized Mr. Johnson as one of the nation’s leading defense lawyers.

From 2018 to 2020, Mr. Johnson served as the global general counsel for Soros Fund Management. In that role, he oversaw legal, compliance, and regulatory functions in New York, London, and Hong Kong, and supervised the firm’s litigations, employment disputes, and regulatory inquiries. Mr. Johnson managed relationships with the SEC, the UK Financial Conduct Authority, and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. He supervised the negotiation and structuring of capital markets transactions; mergers and acquisitions; and hundreds of investments across public and private equities and credit, venture capital, distressed debt, global macro, real estate, and other strategies. Mr. Johnson served on the boards of directors of the firm’s offshore and onshore funds and portfolio companies. He also served as a member of the firm’s Leadership Team and Valuation, Liquidity and Risk, and Cybersecurity Committees.