Gibson Dunn Adds IP Transactions Partner John A. Squires in New York

John Squires

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that John A. Squires has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office.  Formerly a partner with Perkins Coie, Squires will continue his intellectual property practice, with an emphasis in IP transactions.

“We welcome John to the firm,” said Ken Doran, Chairman & Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn.  “John has a well-rounded background covering all aspects of intellectual property, including transactional, licensing, litigation, due diligence, patent-backed lending, and patent asset creation and structuring.  He also has significant experience in financial technology and digital transactions, such as e-commerce, virtual currencies and blockchain, mobile payments, data privacy and cyber security.  And given his previous in-house roles as chief IP counsel at Goldman Sachs and Honeywell, John is uniquely positioned to provide invaluable insight to our clients seeking strategic advice regarding their IP portfolios and IP-related issues.”

“Patents and other IP have become strategic assets driving many of the largest transactions, especially for our technology clients, and John’s addition will help us meet the increasing need in these critical areas,” said Steven Shoemate, Co-Partner in Charge of the New York office.  “With his technical background and experience, he will enhance our IP transactional practice at the senior level and help us meet the demands of clients on matters in which patent rights are of crucial significance.”

“Gibson Dunn has a collegial culture and an incredible platform, particularly in M&A, private equity, finance and other money center capabilities, that will allow me to serve an even broader group of clients, which are among the elite institutions in this country and the world,” said Squires.  “I look forward to working with my new colleagues.”

About John A. Squires

Squires has a broad intellectual property practice with extensive experience in IP transactions; licensing; patent-asset backed financing and related private equity and mergers and acquisitions; IP due diligence; fintech transactions, including cyber security, cryptographic currencies and blockchain; and IP, patent and commercial litigation.  He created the first structured patent debt finance platform in the United States for one of the world’s leading funds.  He also was a co-founder and legal counsel to the board of directors of Regulatory DataCorp, Inc., an anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing fintech business built and launched by 20 of the world’s leading financial institutions.

Prior to joining the firm, Squires was a partner since 2012 with Perkins Coie, where he served as Co-Chair of the IP Value Group and IP lead for the Virtual Currency & Blockchain Industry Group.  Before that, he was Co-Chair of the IP Group at Chadbourne & Parke from 2009 to 2012.

From 2000 to 2008, Squires was in-house counsel at Goldman, Sachs & Co., serving as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and Associate General Counsel.  In this role, he was responsible for the company’s global IP practice, set its IP policy and directed intellectual property asset value capture, IP clearance and monetization efforts.  From 1998 to 2000, he served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Allied Signal, now Honeywell, Inc.’s Advanced Technologies Division.

He provided Senate Judiciary testimony on behalf of the SIFMA, Financial Services Roundtable and American Bankers Association on Patent Reform: The Future of Innovation.  Additionally, he provided testimony to the Federal Trade Commission in support of its 2011 report, The Evolving IP Market Place, and was a member of the Patent Damages Handbook Committee for the Federal Judicial Center.

Squires graduated magna cum laude in 1992 from the University of Pittsburgh Law School, where he was Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.  He received his bachelors of science in chemistry in 1984 from Bucknell University.

About Gibson Dunn

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is a leading international law firm.  Consistently ranking among the world’s top law firms in industry surveys and major publications, Gibson Dunn is distinctively positioned in today’s global marketplace with more than 1,200 lawyers and 19 offices, including Beijing, Brussels, Century City, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Orange County, Palo Alto, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, and Washington, D.C.