John Amster
John A. Amster is a general manager at Intellectual Ventures where he focuses on a variety of projects relating to intellectual property and invention.
Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures, Mr. Amster was a managing director for I|C|M|B Ocean Tomo where he founded the firm’s M&A Advisory practice and completed transactions with an aggregate value of approximately $40 Million.
Before Ocean Tomo, Mr. Amster was vice president and secretary at InterTrust Technologies where he worked on a variety of large intellectual property transactions and held responsibility for the company’s M&A activity. Mr. Amster played an important role in the company’s late-stage private financing and initial and secondary public offerings. Mr. Amster served on the 4-person executive team responsible for managing the strategic alternatives process which resulted in the successful sale of InterTrust to a Philips-Sony joint venture in a transaction valued at $453 Million.
Prior to InterTrust, Mr. Amster was an associate in the Transactional Group of Weil Gotshal & Manges’ Silicon Valley office where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, venture capital financings, as well as technology and intellectual property licensing. Mr. Amster began his legal career in the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he gained experience in copyright licensing and complex patent litigation.
In addition to his work, Mr. Amster is a director of the Lone Mountain Children’s Center and is involved in numerous other charitable organizations in San Francisco.
Mr. Amster received his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and his B.A. from Middlebury College.
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