E. John Park

John helps venture capital and corporate venture capital clients structure and implement early and late stage investments. He also represents private and public companies providing general corporate and strategic advice on financings, partnerships, joint ventures and M&A transactions, as well as inbound, outbound, and cross-border transactions. In many of these transactions, he draws upon his experience in intellectual property protection, technology licensing, environmental law, corporate governance, executive compensation, labor and employment, and international tax law. In addition, John serves as deputy leader of the firmwide emerging companies and venture capital practice.

John is the chair of the Corporate Venture Capital Working Group at VC Taskforce, an organization that represents the venture capital community, and is a member of the mergers and acquisitions committee of the American Bar Association. He is also on the advisory board of the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California. The Legal 500 listed John as a leading emerging growth company lawyer in Silicon Valley.

• SandboxAQ in its acquisition of Good Chemistry, a computational chemistry company that leverages AI, quantum and other advanced technologies to accelerate drug discovery and materials design
• GCT Semiconductor Inc., a designer and supplier of advanced 5G and 4G LTE semiconductor solutions that enable connectivity to numerous commercial devices such as mobile hotspots, routers, M2M applications and smartphones for global wireless carriers, in a definitive business combination agreement with Concord Acquisition Corp III
• Clearvision Ventures in its investment in Viridios Group, a company that runs a global carbon credit origination, capital markets, and asset management business focused on the growing voluntary carbon market, with a unique SaaS carbon credit data and analytics platform
• GFT Ventures in the $7.6 million financing of Mighty Health, the first all-in-one daily health program designed for adults ages 50 and up
• Chamaeleon in the note financing in Dirty Labs, a developer of an enzyme-driven cleaning technology
• Translink Capital in the $17 million Series A financing of Lionsbot, a Singapore-based cleaning robot manufacturer
• Chamaeleon in the series seed financing of OneRoof, a developer of a communication platform designed to help people living in the same building form a community and become more resourceful
• Translink Capital in the SAFE financing of Regent Craft, a company that develops and manufactures all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes, building on real-world-proven technology
• Translink Capital in the $20 million financing of Fox Robotics, the world’s first intelligent forklift that autonomously services the warehouse receiving dock
• Translink Capital in the $22 million Series A financing of SINAI Technologies, a company that produces technology to help companies measure carbon emissions and recommends ways of mitigating them
• Sandbox AQ in its acquisition of Cryptosense, a developer of software that enables its customers, such as financial institutions, to manage the life cycle of cryptography
• Acorn Pacific Ventures in the $15 million Series A financing of REAP, a Hong Kong–based startup that offers an online payments platform that enables small businesses to pay expenses and collect revenue entirely via credit card
• Sandbox AQ in its Series A financing of evolutionQ, a quantum-safe cybersecurity company
• Premise Data in its acquisition of Grupo Meiko S.A.S., a Colombia-based technology company that generates and analyzes data obtained in establishments of the traditional channel to generate value to its customers: manufacturers, shopkeepers, and consumers
• Translink Capital in the $23 million Series B financing of Full Harvest, a produce business-to-business marketplace specializing in surplus and imperfect produce
• Premise in its acquisition of Native, a pioneer in market research
• Borealis Ventures in the $45 million Series B financing of Ankyra, a provider of cancer therapy services intended to improve both the safety and efficacy of cytokine immunotherapies for cancer patients
• A sovereign wealth fund in the Series B financing of Xanadu Quantum Technologies, a quantum computing hardware and software company
• A sovereign wealth fund in the Series C financing of MARA Labs Inc., a system integrator company that provides innovative and reliable business solutions in India and the United States
• A sovereign wealth fund in the convertible note financing of Shopper.com.br, an online grocery shopping site in Brazil
• Premise Data, a market intelligence platform that blends machine learning with human intelligence, making it possible to gather and analyze real-time data from a curated and trusted global network, in its $85 million Series E financing led by WestCap Group with participation from NightDragon, Winslow Capital, DRW, Vista Credit Partners, Valor Equity Partners, 8VC, and Tao Capital
• Metal in its acquisition of Lynx, one of the most established and experienced decentralized application (dApp) developers in the world
• Parade Technologies in its $37.5 million acquisition of Fresco Logic Inc., a fabless semiconductor company with a focus on high-speed data transport and I/O aggregation chip and technology
• Onion ID Inc., a software solutions company specializing in securing cloud servers and applications, in its sale to Thycotic
• TransLink Capital in the $12.5 million and the $5 million Series A-1 financing of Gamevice, creator of an attachable gamepad controller that transforms smart devices into hyper-advanced mobile gaming consoles
• LG Technology Ventures in the $43 million Series C financing of Deep Instinct, the first and only cybersecurity company to successfully apply end-to-end deep learning to predict, identify, and prevent cyberattacks
• LG Technology Ventures in its $10 million Series A financing of Element Energy, a strategic energy consulting company
• LG Electronics in its Series A-1 financing of Washlava, a provider of innovative technology allows customers to reserve and pay for laundry machines from their smartphones
• CarMax Inc. in its $5 million Series C investment of RepairPal, a provider of auto service and repairs via a network of RepairPal Certified shop 
• Vidder Inc., a cybersecurity company, in the sale of its PrecisionAccess solution and other software defined perimeter (SDP) related assets to Verizon
• Metal in its acquisition of Crumbs, a micro investing app that allows users to invest in digital assets
• Target Corporation in its acquisition of Grand Junction, a transportation technology company
• TransLink Capital in the $12.5 million Series A financing of Molekule, a maker of air purifiers that use nanotechnology