John Lynch currently serves as the firm's managing partner and is a practicing member of the Business Transactions and Finance Practice Groups. He has developed a transaction-oriented corporate and commercial practice, regularly representing both buyers and sellers in structuring, negotiating, financing, and documenting sophisticated business acquisition and sale transactions. Mr. Lynch's practice involves working with investment banks, accounting firms, and other professional advisors to provide integrated professional services to the firm's clients engaging in merger and acquisition transactions. In addition to his corporate practice, he represents both lenders and borrowers in a variety of commercial finance transactions. These transactions regularly include the representation of lenders in structuring and documenting asset-based financings, the representation of agents and participants in both secured and unsecured syndicated credit facilities, and the representation of lenders and borrowers in a variety of leveraged buyout transactions.

In addition to his transactional practice, Mr. Lynch regularly represents corporate clients on matters of governance, shareholder relations, employee matters, and general contracting issues. His clients have included public and large private corporations, financial institutions, sovereign tribal nations, health care providers, and small business ventures.

EDUCATION

—	J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, Moot Court
—	B.A., cum laude, College of the Holy Cross, Economics/Accounting

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

—	American Bar Association, Business Law Section, 1984 to present
—	Connecticut Bar Association, Business Law and Banking Sections, 1984 to present
—	Connecticut Business & Industry Association, 2010 to present, Board of Directors
—	Connecticut Bar Foundation, James W. Cooper Fellow, 2011

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

—	Hartford Stage Company, Board of Directors
—	U.S. Law Firm Group, Trustee
—	MetroHartford Alliance
—	Leadership Greater Hartford

HONORS AND AWARDS

—	Ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the state of Connecticut in the area of Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions for 2011 and 2012
—	Listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers® in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions Law for 2006 and 2008 to 2012 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
—	Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Corporate Law since 2007 and in the area of Mergers and Acquisitions for 2012 and 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC)