John Finley is a Senior Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer of Blackstone and a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
 

Before joining Blackstone in 2010, Mr. Finley had been a partner with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he was a member of the law firm’s Executive Committee and served as Co-Head of Global Mergers & Acquisitions.
 

Mr. Finley is an Adviser on the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance project and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of Harvard Law School, Gettysburg Foundation Board and Board of Advisors of the Penn Institute for Law and Economics. Mr. Finley is also a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He has served on the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Committee of Securities Regulation of the New York State Bar Association and the Board of Advisors of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University.
 

Mr. Finley has a BS in Economics, summa cum laude, from The Wharton School, a BA summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD cum laude from the Harvard Law School.