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, Jeff 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. Jeff has an extensive network of contacts and is able to make key introductions to help his clients pursue their business interests.
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, Jeff 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 Jeff as a sounding board, coaching them through both big-picture strategic questions and potential conflicts as an advisor they can trust.
Before joining Coren Lichtenstein LLP, Jeff 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. Jeff 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.
- Business and Corporate
- Family Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Jeff holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
- Formation of $1 billion private equity fund with over 70 institutional and
high net worth investors - Managed multi-year business divorce (business partnership separation)
involving established privately held defense contractor - Assisted divorce counsel in separating complex business interests worth
over $20 million - Worked with law firm to revise partnership agreement as part of
generational succession - Served on arbitration panel evaluating multi-million dollar Wage Act and
breach of contract claims - Settled pre-litigation real estate partnership dispute for $25 million
- Represented cannabis retailers in joint ventures, private placements and
M&A transactions
Jeff has served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution
Section’s Collaborative Law Committee and as President of the Massachusetts
Collaborative Law Council. He has been involved in training other dispute
resolution professionals in the US and Europe.
- Jeff has been recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer annually since 2020 and has received Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Excellence in ADR award.