Jean A. Harrington

Jean concentrates her practice in mergers and acquisitions, representing sophisticated private investment funds, multinational corporations and other market participants in their most challenging transactional matters. She is known for engineering creative resolutions which unite divergent parties and bring complex deals to fruition.

Jean also serves as corporate counsel to a number of private companies on a wide range of corporate and strategic matters.

Representative Experience

• Represented a software development and services provider for commercial and industrial environments in the sale of substantially all of its assets in a transaction that included sophisticated tax planning and carryover investment in the new entity by management
• Represented a real estate project development and management company in its acquisition of a Newport-based yachting and entertainment venue. The eight-figure transaction involved a private placement of equity under Rule 506 of Regulation D of the securities laws as well as traditional bank financing
• Represented a real estate developer in the acquisition and financing of a large scale commercial residential mill project and the related equity, bank, mezzanine and historic and state tax credit financing
• Represented a private equity fund in the formation of two multimillion dollar REOC investment funds and negotiated the investment therein by several large pension funds
• Represented private developer in the construction of a professional soccer stadium involving several layers of financing, including senior construction, state tax credit, municipal bonding, C-PACE and city grants
• Represented several manufacturing companies in multimillion dollar transactions involving the sale of their businesses with a roll-over investment component to large private equity firms

Affiliations

• Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors and Member of Executive Committee
• American Bar Association
  • Business Law Section
  • Real Property Section
  • Taxation Law Section
• Rhode Island Bar Association

Recognition

• Ranked in Chambers USA, Corporate/Commercial, Rhode Island
• Recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Information Technology Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law, Securities / Capital Markets Law, Rhode Island, 2017-Present
• Named a “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America in Providence in the areas Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2022, 2024
• Recognized in Super Lawyers, Business & Corporate, Providence, 2023-Present
• Named a “Go-To-Lawyer” by Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly for Business Law, 2022

Education

• Boston College Law School, J.D., magna cum laude
• Brown University, B.S., with honors

Bar Admissions

• Rhode Island
• Massachusetts
• Connecticut