John Neeson | Start Strong Team
John is a corporate lawyer who specialises in mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and, in particular, private equity and venture capital transactions. He has worked on extensively on both investor and investee roles over a range of sectors, with a particular focus on the technology, medical devices and pharmaceutical sectors. Along with Rory O’Malley, John is the co-head of the Start-Up team in McCann FitzGerald and has been a driving force in developing the Start Strong programme.
Tell us a little bit about your career to date?
Law was a natural choice for me as a number of my close family members are practicing lawyers already. I studied law at Trinity and went on to work in a criminal law firm in Dublin before going to Australia and securing a job in the Attorney General’s office in Sydney. I returned to Ireland in 2008 and joined McCann FitzGerald in 2009, where I qualified as a solicitor into the corporate group in 2012. Since then I have worked closely with a large number of early-stage companies through initial friends and family/seed rounds, Series A fundraisings and exits.
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