Harry Hanson Bio

Harry Hanson retired from the partnership in December 2024 and is currently Senior Counsel. Harry advises high-growth companies and their investors on a full range of business transactions, including venture capital and private equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, strategic commercial arrangements, IP licensing agreements, executive compensation, and corporate governance. For more than 40 years, Harry has helped entrepreneurs and technology companies grow and succeed. He has represented some of the most successful private equity and venture capital firms in the United States and Internationally. Harry gets involved at all points in the growth cycle of a business—advising on initial formation, financing, negotiating mission critical commercial agreements and strategic partnerships, which frequently include both acquisition and exit through the purchase and sale of assets, as well as stock purchase and merger transactions. Harry is regularly engaged as transaction counsel to buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions ranging in size from several million dollars to $100+ million. His clients include private companies, independent sponsors, angel investors and institutional investors in hundreds of venture capital financings, growth and private equity transactions, debt financings, cross-border transactions, complex restructuring transactions and spin-off transactions. Harry was previously a partner with Choate Hall & Stewart LLP and an organizing partner and initial chair of that firm’s Business & Technology Group.