Jeffrey N. Fink

Jeffrey Fink assists businesses and their owners with both transactional and general business matters, including advising individuals and organizations on complex business partner and limited liability company matters; business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions; partner disputes, business divorce and internal organizational conflict; business organization; legal matters involving business-adjacent concerns; and general business legal advice.  As outside general counsel, Mr. Fink advises on general contract, commercial, organizational, employee, licensing and other matters, as well as participating in board meetings and interfacing with personnel at all levels of organizations to address strategic and operational concerns.  He also works with not-for-profit organizations, attorneys who specialize in other areas such as divorce and on prenuptial and postnuptial agreements involving complex business or financial issues.

Conflict can lead to constructive or destructive outcomes, depending on how it is managed. While sometimes necessary, it can also be frustrating, annoying and expensive. As an experienced dispute resolution professional, Mr. Fink serves in a variety of dispute resolution roles including settlement counsel, mediator, arbitrator, facilitator and collaborative lawyer and, if need be, manages litigation. 

Clients often rely on Mr. Fink as a sounding board, coaching them through both big-picture strategic questions and potential conflicts as an advisor they can trust.

Mr. Fink attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts, and Columbia University School of Law.  Before joining Coren Lichtenstein LLP, he spent over a decade in the corporate law departments of major international law firms in New York and Seattle including Proskauer, Perkins Coie and a mid-sized firm that became the core of Ropes & Gray’s New York office. After relocating to Boston, he co-founded a small firm that focused on representing venture-backed companies, maintained a private practice and served as general counsel of a small investment bank. Mr. Fink has hands-on business leadership experience as a member of Coren Lichtenstein LLP’s Executive Committee, through work in several software startups and through service as an outside director to a widely held private company.

Mr. Fink is the former Co-Chair of the Collaborative Law Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and former President of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council.  He has been involved in training other dispute professionals in the US and in Europe.  He is admitted to practice in both New York and Massachusetts.