Practice Areas
- General Corporate
- Hedge Funds / Investment Funds
- Investment Advisers & Broker-Dealers
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Securities & Public Companies
Education
- Columbia Law School, L.L.B., 1966, magna cum laude, Articles Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1965-1966
- Yale University, B.A., 1960, Dean's List
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1967
- District of Columbia, 1968
- Connecticut, 1974
Court Admissions
- U.S. Tax Court, 1974
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1967
- U.S. District Court District of Connecticut, 1974
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1992
Honors and Awards
Harold B. Finn III, a founding partner of the firm, represents trust companies, private companies and individuals in connection with the establishment and operation of registered investment advisers and private investment companies. He also serves as a counselor to private and public companies in connection with various matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance.
He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia University, where he was Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk on the United States Supreme Court to the late Chief Justice Earl Warren and the late Associate Justice Stanley F. Reed.
Mr. Finn is a former member of the Council of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. He is a current member and past Chairman of the Banking Law Committee of the ABA’s Business Law Section, and he is a current member of the Section’s Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and its Task Force on Section 16 as well as the Section’s Committee on Consumer Financial Services and its Sub-committee on Personal Property Financing. In addition, Mr. Finn is currently the Chairman of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Banking Commissioner of the State of Connecticut and is past Co-Chair of the Task Force on the Connecticut Business Corporation Act of the Business Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. Previously, he has served as Chair of the Business Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Revision of the Banking Law of Connecticut. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Mr. Finn is the author of the “Annual Survey of Securities Laws Developments Affecting the Banking and Thrift Industries”, which was published annually in The Business Lawyer Update from 1986 through 1991, and of “The Impact of the Proposed Federal Securities Code Upon the Banking Industry”, 36 Business Lawyer 397 (1982), and has appeared as a lecturer and panelist in numerous national, regional and state continuing legal education programs. His reported litigation cases include Fort Gratiot Sanitary Landfill, Inc. v. Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 504 U.S. 353, 60 U.S.L.W. 4438, (1992), Holly Hill Holdings v. Lowman, 226 Conn. 748 (1993) and United Illuminating Co. v. City of New Haven, 240 Conn. 422 (1997).
Associations and Memberships
Law Clerk to Justice Stanley F. Reed (Ret.) and Chief Justice Earl Warren, United States Supreme Court, 1966-1967
Connecticut Fund for the Environment, 1997 - 2002, Board of Trustees
Connecticut Banking Commissioner, Advisory Committee, Vice Chairman, 1988 - 2001, Chairman, 2001 - Present
Connecticut Banking Commissioner, Advisory Committee on International Banking
Connecticut Business Corporation Act Task Force Co-Chair, 1994 - 1997
Revision of Banking Laws in Connecticut, 1993 - 1994 Advisory Committee
Blue Ribbon Commission of Connecticut Attorney General, 1982 - 1983
Connecticut Bar Association, Executive Committee, Business Law Section Chairman, 1992 - 1994
American Bar Association, Council, Section of Business Law Member, Council, 2000 - 2004
American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, 1979 - Present Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities
American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Banking Law Co-Chair, 1994 - 1996; Vice Chair, 1992 - 1994; Chair, 1996 - 1998
American Law Institute, 1976 - Present, Elected Member, Member Consultative Group for Restatement Third Trusts
Greenwich Country Day School, 1987 - 1991 Board of Trustees
Publications
"Annual Survey of Securities Laws Developments Affecting the Banking and Thrift Industries," The Business Lawyer Update, 1986 - 1991
"The Impact of the Proposed Federal Securities Code Upon the Banking Industry," 36 Business Lawyer 397, 1982