John Casnocha

John Casnocha is a partner in the firm’s Technology group and global co-chair of the firm’s private market liquidity group, where he advises founders, emerging growth companies, and venture capital, private equity and other investment funds on corporate and transactional matters, including formations, financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and structuring and executing secondary sales and other private market liquidity transactions. He has guided companies and investors through hundreds of financing and M&A transactions worth billions of dollars in a wide variety of industries including software, digital media and health, life sciences, fintech, PropTech, climate tech, EdTech, crypto and web3, artificial intelligence, consumer products, entertainment, and sports.

John spends his free time chasing after his three young daughters and exploring the outdoors. He serves as President of the Board of Trustees of Lone Mountain Children’s Center.

John’s representative company clients include: Archy, Awardco, Bloomreach, Clayful, ClarityPay, Constrafor, /dev/agents, Diagon Technologies, Emergence Software, Evolve Vacation Rental, FrontApp, Gridware, Hansa, HenryMeds, Jam, Jaris, Laravel, Last Labs, Latch, Lightbeam, LiquiDonate, LoveFrom, Magic Soup, Mezmo, Miro, Mode, Neubird, Neuro-ID, OpenLoop, Orbital, Premier Lacrosse League, Parade.AI, Prime Financial Technologies, PubNub, Recall.ai, Sauron, SavvyMoney, Scopely, Slingshot AI, Spawning, StepMobile, StepSecurity, Teambridge, Tekion, TrueNorth, Truework, WattCarbon, and Wisdom AI.  

Prior to joining Goodwin, John was an associate in Latham & Watkins’ San Francisco and London offices. Prior to attending law school, John taught English at a university in Quito, Ecuador and at San Francisco University High School.

John was selected to Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars list for 2021 and 2022, and in 2024 was named by Venture Capital Journal as one of the top 40 venture capital professionals under age of 40.