John Myer serves on company boards and provides management advice to clients. He retired from practicing as a transactional corporate and securities lawyer at the end of 2023. In his legal career, he represented start-up companies from formation, though angel financing to merger or acquisition. He also worked on public company securities offerings and M&A transactions, bank and venture capital financings and drafted contracts with companies’ employees, customers or vendors. In addition, John represented investment advisers who operate hedge funds and others who manage public mutual funds. Prior to moving to Seattle in 2004, he was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell (New York and Frankfurt), White & Case (Miami) and Paul Weiss (London). Before his career in law, John served as a financial analyst and management consultant with Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was also a member of the faculty of the Management Education Institute (now the Hult International Business School) where he taught courses in quantitative methods and financial modeling for MBA students.