Antone F. Johnson

For 24 years, Antone Johnson has served as lawyer, advisor, executive and advocate for emerging growth technology/digital media ventures, founders and investors in a diverse range of business and intellectual property matters. Raised in Menlo Park and Palo Alto, California, suffused with Silicon Valley’s unique culture of innovation, he came of age professionally during the Internet explosion of the late 1990s, an entrepreneurial crucible of unprecedented wealth and job creation, reinvention of countless industries, and related venture capital and Wall Street dealmaking. Antone was fortunate to have a ringside seat at major Los Angeles and Silicon Valley law firms, followed by a series of in-house roles at household-name consumer Internet and media companies that further refined his perspective. • Prior to founding Bottom Line Law Group in 2010, Antone served as VP, Legal Affairs at eHarmony, where he built the in-house legal function from scratch to support a growing, profitable $200+ million business. He directed the company’s internal and external legal teams, including more than a dozen law firms across five countries, to support its global operations and emerging social media sites. Antone served as primary legal advisor to the CEO, senior management and Board of Directors in strategic transactions, corporate governance, shareholder relations, litigation strategy, crisis communications and risk management. Key accomplishments included closing four acquisitions, launching new ventures and products, growing and defending a substantial IP portfolio, reaching a landmark settlement with regulators that made WSJ headlines, and leading defense teams in complex patent infringement, consumer class action and employment litigation. • Prior to eHarmony, Antone was a legal executive at MySpace and its parent company, Intermix Media, through its early period of hyper-growth and global expansion, where he helped execute the company’s $650 million sale to News Corp