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 that law firm’s Executive Committee and 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, Advisory Board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, Gettysburg Foundation 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 received a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A. in History, summa cum laude, from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.