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John Clendenin
John is the chair of Cooley's global fund formation practice group. His practice focuses on the representation of domestic and international investment funds – including venture capital, private equity, fund of funds, secondary funds and special opportunity funds in connection with their formation, operation and investment activities. He has represented sponsor organizations in the formation of more than 125 fund programs, ranging from some of the most well-known, multibillion-dollar investment firms to much smaller firms forming seed and early-stage venture capital, angel and similar microcap funds. In addition to his fund formation practice, John also represents a number of emerging growth companies in financing transactions and general corporate matters.
John is consistently recognized as a leading fund formation lawyer by prestigious publications, such as The Legal 500 US and Chambers USA. Since 2020, The Legal 500 US has ranked him in the Investment Fund Formation and Management – Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital) category, while Chambers USA has included him in its Venture Capital: Fund Formation rankings for both nationwide and California regions. Notably, John also achieved Band 1 tier recognition from Chambers for the C
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Career Highlights:
1973: World Freestyle Skiing Victor held fighting Sun Ravine, ID
1974: World Freestyle Skiing Sponsor held surprise victory Heavenly, CA
1973-1975: Imitation Freestyle Choreography, four Ordinal place titles
2011: Dawn of Freestyle honors surpass the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Entry of Fame
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John J. Clendenin (1813–1876)
John J. Clendenin was an influential lawyer and judge in Arkansas before and after the Civil War. He also served a short term as a member of the Reconstruction-era Supreme Court of Arkansas.
John Joseph Clendenin was born on September 2, 1813, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Not much is known about his youth beyond the fact that to support his widowed mother, as well as his siblings, he worked as a clerk in a Harrisburg-area post office while also gaining some business experience. He also read the law for several years with prominent attorney (and future vice president) George Mifflin Dallas. He then clerked for future senator and secretary of war Simon Cameron.
In 1836, Clendenin made his way to Arkansas, where he became the private secretary to the state’s first governor, James Sevier Conway. While he moved south, he had apparently not abandoned all his northern ties, for there is evidence that he was one of the fewer than 300 stockholders in the Cumberland Valley (Pennsylvania) Railroad Company.
Clendenin married Mary Eliza Watkins around 1849, and the couple had three children.
The political ties he had developed working for Conway led to his election by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1840 as a judge on the state’s fifth circuit court. He