GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - USA
John G Finley of The Blackstone Group
John Finley’s corporate law skills are regularly called to the fore in his current role as chief legal officer at Blackstone, with the prolific investment giant boasting over USD470 billion in assets under management across its real estate, infrastructure, private equity and hedge funds.
Finely, who headed Simpson Thacher’s highly esteemed mergers and acquisitions practice before joining Blackstone in 2010, is held in particularly high regard for his transactional nous, with he and the 100-strong legal department demonstrating their deal-making credentials last year in Blackstone’s USD20 billion acquisition of Thomson Reuters’ Finance & Risk unit and the USD7.6 billion acquisition of Gramercy Property Trust.