C. Jeffrey Cook
Partner
jcook@cohenkinne.com
Phone: 413.443.9399
Fax: 413.442.9399
Jeff is the senior member of the firm's Transactions and Capital
Formation Group and has earned a reputation of being highly skilled
in managing complicated business transactions. He has more than
35 years of experience working on mergers and acquisitions for
buyers and sellers. Jeff advises new and established businesses
on all aspects of capital formation and he counts among his clients
a number of the larger multi-generational businesses located in
and around the Berkshires. He serves many corporate clients as
general counsel, often dealing with such matters as business development
and ownership succession.
Jeff represents cultural organizations located within and outside
the Berkshires and regularly counsels them on business, tax and
regulatory matters.
Experience Highlights
- Represented a troubled regional department store chain with
locations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey
in a successful sale, through bankruptcy, to a larger national
chain.
- Regularly handles the acquisition and sale of businesses
whose assets range from high five figures to middle nine figures,
beginning with lead negotiations and continuing through post-closing
business and employee integration.
- Family businesses in transition
have benefited from Jeff's long experience in the planning and
implementation of a full range of business development objectives,
including acquisition and sale of business units, management
recruitment and management and ownership succession.
In the Community
- Jeff is active in state and local business organizations.
He is one of the founding members of the Berkshire Business
Roundtable and serves on the board of directors of the Massachusetts
Business Roundtable, the executive committee of the Berkshire
Economic Development Corporation, and on the Berkshire Regional
Competitiveness Council.
- One of the founders of the Northeast
Symposium on the Environment, Jeff is an avid outdoorsman. He
is a devoted downhill skier who also enjoys kayaking, hiking,
tennis, mountain biking and cross-country skiing.
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Areas of Practice
- Business and Banking Law
- Business and Financial Transactions
- Business Organization
and Capital Formation
- Corporate and Business Counseling
- Health Law
Education
- Columbia College, B.A, 1963
- Columbia University School of
Law, J.D., 1966, cum laude
Bar Admission
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- ABA Section of Business Law
- ABA Section of Health Law
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- MBA Section of Business Law
- MBA Section of Public Law
- MBA Section of Health Law
- New York State Bar Association
- NYSBA Section of Business
Law
- NYSBA Section of Labor & Employment Law
- NYSBA Section
of Real Property Law
- Berkshire Bar Association
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