John F. Cohan is a Corporate Partner with Gesmer Updegrove LLP in Boston, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings, bank financings, private placements of equity and debt securities, intellectual property licensing, and software licensing and technology law. Cohan’s practice ranges from multi-million dollar acquisitions and corporate loan, venture capital and private equity financing transactions to representing and advising early stage and emerging companies and technology entrepreneurs in connection with their contracting, licensing, business planning, intellectual property needs, and general corporate compliance. He is also an adjunct instructor at Boston University School of Law, teaching upper level transactional contract drafting