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Robert Finkel
Work Department
Big Data ; Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ; Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force ; Cross-Border Transactions ; FinTech ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; Outsourcing Technology ; Technology ; Transactions and Licensing
Position
Partner
Career
Robert Finkel is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group and a member of the FinTech Group. Mr. Finkel has more than 25 years of experience in private practice representing leading international corporations and financial institutions in complex commercial transactions with a particular focus on technology and outsourcing. Over the course of his career, he has represented clients in more than 100 major outsourcing transactions, across a wide variety of industries and types of transactions.
Mr. Finkel has for many years been a Band 1 Chambers Global and Chambers USA ranked lawyer in the areas of Outsourcing (Global and Nationwide) and Technology (New York). He is one of only a handful of lawyers worldwide to have a Band 1 ranking in the Chambers Global and Chambers USA Nationwide and New York categories. Mr. Finkel is widely regarded by outside observers as being one of the leaders in the profession and has been described as having “a very good way of building trust” and is “an impressively active practitioner with a sense of gravitas” and one “who gives excellent strategic, business-focused advice.” In addition, his “understanding of our company and the nuances of our business is magnificent,” commented a client in 2013 for a major legal directory publication.
Practice
Mr. Finkel has extensive knowledge in structuring and negotiating outsourcing transactions and other complex technology and service arrangements. Mr. Finkel’s practice also encompasses mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and software and technology licensing. His clients have included many of the leading domestic and international corporations and financial institutions.
Mr. Finkel has published on a broad range of corporate, outsourcing and technology issues in such publications as the M&A Lawyer, the Computer Lawyer, Cyberspace Lawyer, the Journal of Internet Law, Intellectual Property Today, E-Commerce Adviser, Global eCommerce, Director’s Monthly and the National Law Journal, among others.
Professional Activities
Mr. Finkel is a recent member of the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors. He is an adjunct professor at New York Law School, where for the past several years he has instructed an advanced seminar course on Corporate Governance. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Finkel served as an aide to the late United States Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Memberships
- New York
Education
JD, Stanford University, 1987
MA, International Affairs, Columbia University, 1988
BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1981
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
(Hall of Fame)New Yok-based Robert Finkel and Ariel Soiffer, in Boston, are the key practitioners in WilmerHale‘s outsourcing practice. Finkel, a corporate and fintech specialist, advises international corporations and financial institutions in complex commercial transactions, including technology and outsourcing deals. Soiffer focuses on tech transactions and also works on mandates in the life sciences, machine learning and logistics spaces. The pair regularly advise international corporations on global outsourcing transactions, namely payment processing, cloud-sourcing, management platform and service agreement transactions. The firm also works on traditional supply-chain and business outsourcing matters.
United States > Finance > Fintech
WilmerHale is praised for bringing ‘deep industry experience from traditional financial services and the securities and futures sectors across a range of issues’, which combined with the firm’s deep bench strength, ‘puts it in a position to advise on cutting edge legal issues related to fintech, blockchain and crypto’. The well regarded group embraces a broad mix of disciplines, including regulatory and government affairs, technology transactions, securities and financial services, IP and litigation. The practice is jointly led by corporate partner Robert Finkel in New York and financial regulatory partner Franca Harris Gutierrez in Washington DC. New York partner Tiffany Smith is also singled out for her ‘critical advice on cutting edge issues that often have no clear answer or even legal basis‘.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Outsourcing United States > Media, technology and telecoms
- Fintech United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Government > Government relations
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation