Associate Investment Manager, Legal Counsel
Biography
John Harabedian is an Associate Investment Manager, Legal Counsel in Bentham's Los Angeles office. Prior to joining the Bentham team, John was a prosecutor in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, where he conducted over a hundred preliminary hearings and served as the sole prosecutor on six trials to verdict. Earlier in John's career, he practiced as a litigator at Latham & Watkins LLP, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial and securities litigation.
John graduated from Yale University, and then received his M.Sc. from Oxford University. After receiving his J.D. from Stanford Law School, John served as a law clerk to Judge Josephine Staton of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2012, John was elected as a Councilmember for the City of Sierra Madre, where he resides with his wife and son. John served as Mayor of Sierra Madre during the 2014-2015 term, and was re-elected to the City Council in April 2016 for another four-year term.