JOHN L. MCDONNELL III
John McDonnell has worked with some of the most innovative tech companies in Silicon Valley and worldwide. He has been lead counsel on thousands of partnership and acquisition transactions totaling over $2B for major corporations like Autodesk, HP, Pandora, PayPal, Samsung and Shutterfly, as well as a wide variety of venture-backed technology companies.
As Founder and Managing Partner of McDonnell Law Group, John serves as a business and legal advisor to tech executives, helping them enhance their strategy and positioning, expand their revenue sources and partnerships, and accelerate growth. His areas of expertise include mobile, payments, security, messaging, data monetization, SaaS, and consumer electronics.
Earlier in his career, as in-house legal counsel, John was a member of the teams that developed the first smart phone at Handspring and Palm, and the first cable Internet access service at Excite@Home.
John is admitted to practice law in California and was a founding member of the Internet and Privacy Law Committee of the California State Bar. He is an alumnus of the University of California at Berkeley and University of San Francisco School of Law where he was a member of the Law Review.