Dennis B. Black Senior Managing Director and General Counsel Management Committee
353 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654  |  312.595.8524  |

Area of Focus: Legal and Compliance

Profile:

• Head of the firm's Corporate Legal and Compliance department
• Senior counsel, Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd.
• Prior to joining the firm, served as outside corporate counsel to Mesirow Financial for over 30 years
• Extensive experience advising business owners and boards of directors, managing all aspects of acquisitions and sales and corporate finance transactions from initial structuring through negotiations, critical documentation and supervision of closings

• Speaker and author on a variety of corporate and related legal matters
• Included among several notable listings, including Illinois Super Lawyers, The Leading Lawyers Network and Leading Attorney in Chambers USA
• Editor, Harvard Law Review
• Attained "AV" rating with The Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review

• B.A., Cornell University, magna cum laude
• J.D., Harvard Law School, magna cum laude

• Bank of America Financial Products Inc., independent director
• Standard Club in Chicago, former president
• Meritas, former director