John Hession

In addition to his role at Cleveland Clinic Innovations as a Special Counsel, Mr. John Hession is a partner in the Venture Capital Financings and Emerging Companies practice groups of Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, and is also Partner-in-Charge of Cooley's Boston office.
John represents emerging-growth technologies companies, principally in the medical device, software, life sciences, telecommunications and electronic commerce fields, as well as angels and venture capital funds in the investment process in these sectors.
His practice includes both start-up and public company work; equity-based compensation strategies; public offerings, representing either underwriters or companies; mergers and acquisitions, representing either buyers or sellers; corporate partnering, joint ventures and other strategic alliances involving technology transfers; license and distribution arrangements for software, hardware, medical devices and biotechnology; and venture capital financings of technology companies, representing either funds or companies.
He has participated in, structured and negotiated more than 250 venture and angel financings, 30+ public offerings, more than 175 strategic alliances involving technology transfers and joint ventures, and more than 180 acquisitions ranging in size from $1.0 million to $4.2 billion.
John has won several awards during his twenty-five-year career in the legal profession.
He was voted by Digital Industry in May 2001, as "one of Boston's best VC lawyers," and by Boston Magazine in October 2002, as "one of Boston's best start-up company lawyers," and nominated in the November 2004-2008 issues of Boston Magazine as a "Super Lawyer" for venture capital and emerging company work, and also voted "one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts" during the same five-year period.
John was also named as one of The Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers for 2007.