Bio

John Meltaus leads entrepreneurs, operating companies, and investors through their most strategic transactions and business matters in the United States and North America, Europe and the United Kingdom, and Asia. John has teamed seamlessly with senior executives of leading technology, life science, and industrial companies, and managing directors of prominent venture, growth equity, and corporate investors for over 30 years. John regularly partners with his colleagues at Choate and with premier and specialty law firms around the world to deliver best-in-class representation. John is recognized for his commitment to clients, business acumen, practical advice and success in achieving business objectives – often advising clients on novel transactions and inventive solutions. While his dedication and business savvy have served to forge business relationships with founders, investors, executives, and board members that have spanned decades, John also enthusiastically embraces the newest clients and their business pursuits – representing clients in a range of industries including healthcare services, life sciences, AI, EdTech, FinTech, Industrial, IoT, RE Tech, SaaS, space technology, and telecom. John has represented strategic and financial investors in control transactions, growth equity and venture financings; operating companies in public and private financings, buy-side acquisitions, and sales to private equity or strategic buyers; and first-time and serial entrepreneurs in their latest ventures. With an extraordinary range of experiences on which to draw – from helping clients to raise funds when markets are tight, to counseling them through “irrational exuberance,” to guiding them through regrouping in the wake of burst bubbles and downturns, to aiding them in pivoting and finding new financing, to working to maximize liquidity and capitalizing on success – John is able to provide clients with the right advice at the right moments. Clients are drawn to John when it’s their investments and returns at stake, they are personally working with counsel, and they want the deal done carefully and advantageously.