• Our Purpose
  • Overview
  • Our Approach
  • Core Values
• Our People

  Daniel Appelman Ann Collins Bill Graves Daniel Hansen Joseph Helmers Sheila Maguire John Montgomery Jonathan Noble Gale McAllister Aubrie Peralta Brianna Richardson

• Our Practices

  Corporate and Securities Financing Transactions Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions Venture Fund Representation Mergers & Acquisitions

John has practiced corporate law in Silicon Valley since 1984. John's experience includes extensive corporate counseling to public and private companies and venture capital firms. He has represented clients in connection with numerous venture capital financings, initial public offerings, public and private mergers and acquisitions, going private transactions and a variety of other general corporate matters.

John is passionately committed to accelerating the growth and success of clients' businesses and has developed Montgomery & Hansen’s proprietary method of working with startups to help them become successful. The firm’s blueprint employs a pattern of development distilled from working with some of Silicon Valley’s most enormously successful, venture capital financed companies. M&H was built using this blueprint and a book about it will be available soon. John works primarily with high potential entrepreneurial teams and applies the law to help them realize their visions.

When not helping startup companies realize their potential, John assists companies in mergers and acquisitions. He has helped his clients buy and sell businesses in transactions involving companies like Cisco, Marvell Semiconductor, Palm, Intuit, Google, Harman International, SonicWall and Dolby Laboratories. John’s experience in having closed hundreds of M&A transactions empowers his clients to focus on the critical process of integrating the businesses and their people to ensure a successful outcome.

John is a frequent speaker and panelist on venture capital topics at such forums as the Haas School of Business, NexGen, the Churchill Club, SVASE and Intel's CFO Forum. He also leads continuing legal education programs about the venture capital process. See https://www.cognistar.com/MontHansen/.

Prior to co-founding M&H, John was the co-chairman of the venture capital practice at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP. Earlier in his career, John was an associate corporate attorney at Baker & McKenzie and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and an in-house attorney at The Cooper Companies, where he learned how clients think.

John holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Northwestern College of Law, Lewis & Clark College.