John M. Compagno Email & Phone Number

John M. Compagno is General Counsel/Senior Vice President at Meyer Corporation and its affiliates. Meyer is a privately owned international conglomerate and a global innovator of the highest quality brands of cookware and bakeware in the world. Meyer Corporation and its affiliates have been inventing, designing, manufacturing and marketing cookware on a global scale since 1972, controlling the entire process from raw materials to finished products, and sell over 100 cookware lines in more than 30 countries, and employ more than 5,000 people worldwide. Meyer's factories around the world produce over 120,000 pans per day. Meyer's products include Anolon, Circulon, KitchenAid, Farberware, Hestan, Bonjour, Ruffoni, Rachael Ray, Ayesha Curry, Anyday, LocknLock, etc.Mr. Compagno also acts as General Counsel for Meyer affiliates Blue Mountain Enterprises, an active real estate development, management and construction company based out of Vacaville, CA (www.bluemountainenterprise.com) and Hestan Commercial Company, an award winning culinary brand based out of Anaheim, CA renowned for creating the market's most advanced, powerful and versatile commercial kitchen equipment, premium outdoor grills and luxury indoor appliances (www.hestan.com).Additionally, he is a member of Lenipagno Investors, LLC a diverse business, real estate and consulting company. Mr. Compagno was formerly an equity law partner and deputy practice leader at the San Francisco office of Holland & Knight, LLP, one of the largest full service legal firms in the U.S. and the world. His practice focused on real estate, corporate and business law. He has been lead counsel in several hundred million dollars worth of real estate acquisitions and sales and the leasing of millions of square feet of commercial and residential space. Mr. Compagno also served as outside legal counsel for numerous corporate entities and manufacturers in all aspects of business including formation, governance, joint ventures, sales, licensing, negotiations, employment, finance, business disputes, collection and drafting. Prior to his transactional practice, Mr. Compagno litigated numerous civil, business and construction litigation cases and obtained substantial trial and arbitration/mediation experience. Mr. Compagno also served as a criminal prosecutor in the Monterey County District Attorney's office in 1993-1994. He has been recognized as one of America's Top 50 Lawyers for Business Law in California in 2022 and multiple times in Northern California Super Lawyer's magazine for Real Estate Law.

Listed skills include Corporate Law, Litigation, Real Estate, Due Diligence, and 13 others.

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