
Johnny’s practice focuses on providing support to early stage companies in the areas of formation, financings, general corporate law, and commercial and licensing transactions. Prior to Inceptiv, Johnny was a Partner at Scale LLP, a distributed law firm providing support to Bay Area start-up companies, and was CFO, GC & Operating Partner at Atomic Labs, a Bay Area venture fund and start-up incubator that has incubated companies such as Hims and Bungalow. Johnny has also served as General Counsel and Head of Operations at SweetLabs, Inc., a private adtech company, and General Counsel for DivX, Inc., a previously Nasdaq-listed company that licensed and distributed the DivX video codec technology. Prior to going in-house, Johnny was an attorney at Ropes & Gray, a corporate law firm based in Boston, and Irell & Manella, a law firm based in Los Angeles.
PRACTICE AREAS
- Outside General Counsel
- Private financings
- Commercial contracts and transactions
- Corporate governance
- Content and IP licensing
- Operations
Prior Associations and Activities
- Scale LLP (Partner)
- Atomic Labs (GC, CFO, Operating Partner)
- SweetLabs (GC, Head of Operations)
- DivX, Inc. (GC)
- Ropes & Gray (Associate)
- Irell & Manella (Associate)
Education
- Yale Law School – J.D.
- Columbia University – B.S. Chemistry
- Cambridge University – Junior Year Abroad
Bar Admissions
- California
- Massachusetts
- United States Patent & Trademark Office


