Jeff represents investment funds and private companies in a wide range of transactions including dispositions, acquisitions, cross-border investments, and joint ventures. Jeff regularly advises portfolio company clients in times of crisis and other major events, helping those clients navigate and manage business risk. Jeff has also guided both activist shareholder and public company clients through hard-fought proxy contests.
Jeff serves as co-chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and has represented a number of indigent clients in various pro bono matters over the years.
- Advises one of the nation’s oldest and largest investment funds, with over $20 billion of assets under management, on the purchase and sale of various private debt, equity and real estate investments, including domestic and cross-border joint ventures often involving complex structures. In addition, Jeff advises on matters relating to the fund’s trading of public debt and equity securities.
- Advises Costa Brava Partnership III L.P. on securities law filings, board governance issues, financings and general strategic matters relating to public company investments, including investments in Telos Corporation, Orange 21, Inc., and Irvine Sensors Corporation.
- Provides strategic advice to both shareholder and company clients engaged in proxy contests, including Genzyme (2010); MFS Intermediate Income Trust (2008), Cohen & Steers Select Utility Fund, Inc. and Cohen & Steers REIT and Utility Income Fund, Inc. (2008) on the company side; and TechTeam Global, Inc. (2006), Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2006) and Basset Furniture Industries, Inc. (2008) on the activist shareholder side, and other engagements resulting in favorable early settlements or actions by the company.
- Serves as outside counsel to Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc., the nation’s leading supplier of kosher poultry.
Professional & Civic Activities
Clerkships
- Honorable Joseph L. Tauro, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
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Education
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JD, magna cum laude, Boston University School of Law, 2000; Editor, Boston University Law Review
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AB, Columbia College, 1988
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