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WilmerHale Offices
7 WORLD TRADE CENTER
250 GREENWICH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10007
NEW YORK
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Brian Johnson
Work Department
Capital Markets ; Corporate Governance and Disclosure ; Cross-Border Transactions ; Emerging Company and Venture Capital ; Life Sciences ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) Transactions
Position
Partner in WilmerHale’s New York Office
- Vice Chair, Corporate Practice Group
- Co-Chair, Capital Markets
Career
Brian Johnson is a trusted legal counselor and practical business advisor with extensive experience representing public and private companies and financial institutions in a wide variety of corporate finance and other significant strategic transactions. He regularly acts as general outside corporate counsel for his clients to provide senior management and boards of directors advice on governance, securities law, compliance and other ongoing corporate matters. Mr. Johnson has a particular focus on life sciences and emerging companies, while continuing to represent clients in a range of industries.
Learn more about Mr. Johnson’s practice and how he can support your startup on WilmerHaleLaunch.com.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Memberships
New York
Education
JD, New York University School of Law, 1999
BA, Economics and Political Science, Tufts University, 1995
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
WilmerHale is a major player in pharmaceuticals and life sciences, bringing it a steady flow of capital markets engagements. It represents both issuers and underwriters on a regular basis. While IPOs dropped in 2022, the firm remains active in follow-on offerings, PIPE financings, and at-the-market offerings. Boston’s Stuart Falber is chair of the life sciences group and is active in capital markets offerings, while New York’s Lisa Firenze and Brian Johnson, and Boston partner Cynthia Mazareas are also key figures.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Government > Government relations
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation