{"id":16647,"date":"2010-07-09T06:47:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T10:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16647"},"modified":"2010-07-09T06:47:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T10:47:15","slug":"hedge-fund-giant-blackstone-hires-finley-as-chief-legal-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/hedge-fund-giant-blackstone-hires-finley-as-chief-legal-officer.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Giant Blackstone Hires Finley As Chief Legal officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/blackstonegroup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16648\" title=\"blackstonegroup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/blackstonegroup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge fund giant Blackstone Group has hired John Finley, formerly a partner at Simpson  Thacher &amp; Bartlett as senior  managing director and chief legal officer.  He will take over from the retiring Robert Friedman in September.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reports: \u201cBlackstone subscribes to the\u00a0George Halas theory of recruiting which is  you hire the best athlete,\u201d said Mr. Friedman,\u00a0referring to the iconic  Chicago Bears\u00a0football coach and owner. \u201cAnd John is just an outstanding  legal talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finley was the head of Simpson\u2019s global M&amp;A practice, where he also   specialized in corporate governance.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge fund giant Blackstone Group has hired John Finley, formerly a partner at Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett as senior managing director and chief legal officer. He will take over from the retiring Robert Friedman in September. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,3,16020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedgeco-news","category-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16650,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647\/revisions\/16650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}