John F. Cohan

Biography

John is currently the Vice President Corporate Strategy & General Counsel for Bambu Global LLC and its several affiliated subsidiary LLC’s. He joined the company in 2019. John serves as an active member of the Executive Management Leadership Team providing strategic counsel on legal, business and operational matters. He represents the company’s legal interests on a variety of fronts including, finance, governance, real estate, intellectual property, employment, litigation, and general corporate matters. John brings to the company a keen sense of where legal, technology and business intersects and how to leverage each to benefit the company as a whole. Prior to Bambu Global, John practiced more than 20 years as a corporate attorney in private practice in Boston. He focused on venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance, as well as representing emerging companies and technology entrepreneurs in connection with their technology licensing, intellectual property, and corporate compliance requirements and needs.

John earned his BSEE from Syracuse University and his JD, magna cum laude, from New England Law | Boston, and is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Current Responsibilities and Professional Experience

John’s current responsibilities and relevant professional experience with and for Bambu Global as its Chief Legal Officer include:

• Chief Legal Officer for parent company and its several separate affiliate entities

• Serving as active member of company’s Executive Management Leadership Team

• Serving as Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer, providing legal input to, and supporting the company’s compliance with, all Federal and state laws, regulatory

compliance (SEC, FDA, IRS),

• Attending Board of Directors meetings, Board committees and shareholder meetings, maintaining minutes; providing legal input, recommendations and advice

• Representing company’s legal interests and providing assurance of strong corporate governance and general corporate housekeeping before investors, partners, regulatory agencies, auditors, legislative bodies and trade groups

• Interfacing and building relationships with strategic partners and related product development

• Supporting corporate matters that include accountability for corporate and business legal issues including contracts, structuring and managing capital raising and sale transactions and negotiating terms of same

• Providing prompt commercial, practical legal advice to the company’s various business lines to facilitate and strengthen operational decision making and business development among several business lines of the company as well as intercompany operations

• Day to day responsibilities include continual regulatory compliance, contracts and commercial agreements, finance, governance, real estate, intellectual property, employment and HR compliance, litigation management and adversarial proceedings

• Manage HR department and day to day compliance, develop HR trainings and employee policies and handbook

• Managing and directing outside counsel as needed

• Draft, develop and maintain intercompany agreements relating to organizational structure, licensing, development, marketing in order to maximize compliance and tax

Further Relevant Experience:

• Significant and deep experience with representation of venture capital funds and portfolio investments; structuring particular transactional models to account for and maximize tax implications regarding same

• Further representation of portfolio companies so as to provide the issuer’s perspective from a legal and business front

• Deep and broad experience in representing senior and mezzanine lenders in connection with acquisition financings, recapitalizations, and bridge loans for venture backed portfolio companies

• Substantial experience with third party as well as intercompany licensing (in and out) of technologies in life sciences, medical devices and software

• Working knowledge, strategy and tactical corporate governance and ability to leverage legal compliance and business needs to obtain beneficial and expedient results

• Managed, structured, drafted and negotiated countless venture capital, private equity, banking and M&A transactions over the span of an almost 25 year career as a Boston private practice corporate attorney