Attorney, Member of the Firm
Email: jmcananey@outsidegc.com
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Justin is a seasoned corporate lawyer and business leader with a twenty-year track record of providing meaningful legal and strategic advice to businesses of all types and sizes across a range of industries. As a true corporate generalist, Justin provides his clients with timely and pragmatic legal advice on both key transactions and day-to-day business matters throughout the corporate lifecycle. Justin's clients at Outside GC include Invest America, Hyperlite Mountain Gear, MindBodyGreen, MSC Industrial Supply, Parsley Health, Townhouse Partners, MasonHub, Purple Carrot, Strata Sustainability and Care Thread.
Prior to Outside GC, Justin worked for more than a decade in the New York and London offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he had a broad transactional practice focused on M&A and capital markets transactions, corporate governance, cross-border joint ventures, and private equity and venture capital transactions. After leaving Gibson Dunn in 2009, Justin built an advisory practice, working with early and growth-stage businesses and serving as de facto GC to multiple start-up companies. Today, he continues that focus at Outside GC, assisting start-up companies with arrangements between co-founders and structure and fundraising matters.
In addition to his broad legal background, Justin is an entrepreneur in his own right and an active angel investor. His real-world business experience helps Justin anticipate the needs of his clients and allows him to assist them to identify and overcome structural and organizational roadblocks to growth.
Justin holds a B.S., magna cum laude, in business administration from Georgetown University and a J.D., cum laude, from the New York University School of Law. He is a member of the New York and Wyoming state bars.
