Gregory W. Johns

First Year of Call
1990 (ON)

Areas of Practice
Business Law

Description
Counsel, Business Law | Technology

Greg is an accomplished business lawyer and highly skilled negotiator with a focus in the technology sector. His broad experience includes complex global contract negotiations and drafting, with a particular focus on infrastructure and application outsourcing and cloud computing.

Greg advises clients on a range of business, legal and contract issues. He develops and applies innovative strategies for structuring and negotiating multifaceted, high-risk transactions using a practical business-oriented approach.

Prior to joining McMillan, Greg was one of IBM’s senior legal executives. He structured and led the negotiation of some of IBM’s largest and most complex long-term global contracts with large private and public sector customers, ranging from $100M to over $1B in value. Outside of Canada, Greg has worked on deals in the United States, UK, Mexico, Brazil and Asia.

Greg has served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Bill 7 Award Trust and is currently a trustee.