Gunderson Dettmer LLP

Mergers and Acquisitions

John is a partner in our Northern California offices, and a leader in the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice group.

John is a specialist in mergers & acquisitions, with broad experience advising sellers, buyers and investors in private and public companies in mergers, stock purchases, asset sales and other strategic transactions, including SPAC transactions and reverse mergers. John has closed dozens of M&A transactions, with an aggregate value in excess of $80 billion.

John particularly focuses on serving technology industry clients (including enterprise and consumer software, artificial intelligence (AI), e-commerce, security, fintech, crypto, insurance tech, digital media, semiconductors and hardware), as well as biotech, medical devices and other life sciences enterprises. He has negotiated transactions across from some of the most prominent serial buyers of founder-led and VC-backed businesses, including Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Roche, Salesforce.com, Uber, and Walmart.