Overview

John A. Squires is globally recognized as one of the world’s leading attorneys in advanced technologies and intellectual property, including AI, Blockchain, Fintech/Regtech Cybersecurity, and Risk. He has extensive experience in all aspects of IP and emerging companies, including IP transactions, licensing, patent-asset creation and acquisition, commercial litigation, regulatory, and risk management matters. John led the creation of the United States’ first patent asset-backed finance platform for one of the world’s leading funds. He co-founded, launched, and sits on the board of numerous IP and risk-related businesses, including Regulatory DataCorp, the Risk Assistance Network + Exchange (RANE), and FinClusive.

In response to the 9/11 attacks, John and 20 of the world’s leading financial institutions established an anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing information, and analytics business. His recent Fintech/Regtech engagements include groundbreaking efforts focused on financial inclusion and empowerment, impact investing, and global standards-setting and compliance. John began his IP/Fintech career as Chief IP Counsel for Goldman Sachs from 2000-2009.

Representative Experience

  • Structured lending business and remain lead counsel to a global investment fund – (U.S.’ first patent/structured finance financing platform); Coller Venture Review, The Curious Case of Patent Balance Sheet Invisibility; Wharton Business Journal: Why Investment Friendly Patents Spell Trouble For Trolls.
  • Lead litigation counsel, Den-Mat Holdings v. Cao Group (CDCa).
  • Structured business and current lead counsel to RANE, the Risk Assistance Network & Exchange (www.RaneNetwork.com) a collaborative risk management start-up.
  • Led initial creation of and IP matters in sale of Regulatory DataCorp, Inc. to Vista Equity Partners.
  • Led the SIFMA IP Sub-Committee from 2002-2007, Testified on Patent Reform to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Behalf of American Bankers Ass’n and the SIFMA.
  • Testified to the Federal Trade Commission on the Evolving IP MarketPlace.

Professional & Community Activities

  • Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
  • University of Southern California, Member, Parent Engagement Committee, 2017 – 2018
  • Faculty Member and Lecturer, Cybersecurity Workforce Alliance (a partnership with the New York Federal Reserve Bank, its Member Banks, and CUNY and SUNY systems)

Speeches & Presentations

  • Collar Venture Review, “The Curious Case of Patent Balance Sheet Invisibility”, (February 2021, co-author).
  • Guest Lecturer, UC Hastings School of Law; Blockchain Law (And What If There Was Any….), January 2018.
  • Guest Lecturer, SUNY (Albany): It’s the Cybercrime and Its Sponsors (Not My Cybersecurity), Stupid, November 2017.
  • American Corporate Counsel, Why Invest in Friendly Patents Spell Trouble for Trolls (reprint of Wharton Business Journal): Knowledge@Wharton, (March 6, 2016).
  • Wharton Business Journal, Knowledge@Wharton, Blockchain, the Bard and Building More Inclusion for Banking, (January 4, 2018, co-author).
  • Wharton Business Journal, Knowledge@Wharton, Why What Happened in Vegas, Won’t Stay in Vegas, (October 26, 2017, co-author).
  • Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare, It’s the Cyber Crime and its Sponsors (Not My Cyber-Security), Stupid (April 2017, co-author).
  • Wharton Business Journal, The Ten Commandments of Cyber Security Knowledge@Wharton, (February 24, 2016, co-author).
  • Wharton Business Journal, The ‘Soft Power’ War ISIS Doesn’t Want Knowledge@Wharton, (December 2015, co-author).
  • Wharton Business Journal, We Don’t Need a Crisis to Act Unitedly Against Cyber Threats, Knowledge@Wharton, (June 2015, co-author).
  • Wharton Business Journal, In the Struggle Against Extremism, Social Media Is the Message Knowledge@Wharton, (January 2015, co-author).
  • Corporate Counsel Magazine, Legal Analytics and Corporate Law Today: A Roundtable Discussion General Publications, (November 2014).
  • Wharton Business Journal, Trust But Verify: How Security Loopholes Can Undermine Online Compliance Training Knowledge@Wharton, (July 2014, co-author).

Professional Recognition

  • Selected to Best Lawyers in America® in the area of litigation – Patent, 2013-Present
  • Chambers USA, “America’s Leading Lawyers” for Intellectual Property: Patent, 2015 – 16.
  • Managing Intellectual Property, “IP Star”, 2013 – present, Litigation.
  • Lexology/ILO Global Client Choice Award 2016, New York, Intellectual Property, Patents.
  • FT Most Innovative Lawyers Award 2013 (PatentAnalysis Tool in REDI Technologies divestiture).
  • Intellectual Asset Management Magazine 300 World’s Leading IP Strategists, 2008 – present.
  • Intellectual Asset Management Magazine 1000, PatenUPatent Litigation, 2008 – present.
  • Named as an IP Star for New York, 2023

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Representative Experience

  • Structured lending business and remain lead counsel to a global investment fund – (U.S.’ first patent/structured finance financing platform); Coller Venture Review, The Curious Case of Patent Balance Sheet Invisibility; Wharton Business Journal: Why Investment Friendly Patents Spell Trouble For Trolls.
  • Lead litigation counsel, Den-Mat Holdings v. Cao Group (CDCa).
  • Structured business and current lead counsel to RANE, the Risk Assistance Network & Exchange (www.RaneNetwork.com) a collaborative risk management start-up.
  • Led initial creation of and IP matters in sale of Regulatory DataCorp, Inc. to Vista Equity Partners.
  • Led the SIFMA IP Sub-Committee from 2002-2007, Testified on Patent Reform to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Behalf of American Bankers Ass’n and the SIFMA.
  • Testified to the Federal Trade Commission on the Evolving IP MarketPlace.

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