Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is an experienced Senior Corporate, Securities, Privacy, and Intellectual Property Attorney, representing clients primarily in Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Johnson has practiced for 34 years as a Managing Senior Attorney with many of the World’s largest preeminent international law firms, including Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, K&L Gates, L.L.P., and Nelson Mullins; with emphasis on managing equity, debt, and fund matters. Mr. Johnson has served as In-House General Counsel, Executive Vice President, and Chief Privacy Officer with NASDAQ public companies and private corporations.... Mr. Johnson received his Master of Laws and Letters (LL.M., summa cum laude) in corporate securities law in May 1995 from Boston University School of Law and was published in The Boston University Annual Law Review of Banking and Financial Law. Mr. Johnson’s Law Review contribution was the World’s first article on future securities trading over the Internet (A full two years before it first occurred).

Mr. Johnson received his Juris Doctorate (J.D., summa cum laude) in May 1992 from Washington University School of Law. Mr. Johnson received two Bachelor of Science (B.S., summa cum laude) degrees – one in Theoretical Physics and one in Computer Engineering – both from The University of Massachusetts in December 1987. Mr. Johnson has been a Member of the Policy & Economics Council of Gerson Lehrman Group, one of Wall Street’s leading investment research firms. Mr. Johnson is licensed to practice law before State and Federal Courts in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Washington, D.C.
(California and Virginia pending).