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Jack Steele

Partner Boston

Jack is a seasoned corporate lawyer with more than three decades of experience. He is known for navigating clients through complex transactions, and is consistently recognized as a leader in the mergers and acquisitions field. In addition, Jack’s expertise covers the areas of venture capital financing, private equity, technology transactions, and capital markets.

Throughout his legal career, Jack has provided counsel on the formation, financing, acquisition, and operation of companies in the technology, internet/media, e-sports, telecommunications, clean tech, manufacturing, life sciences, financial services, healthcare, real estate and services industries.

Jack also works with clients in connection with a wide variety of corporate matters that include: SEC reporting and compliance; risk assessment and compliance programs; supply, distribution, license, service, and joint venture relationships; employment and compensation arrangements; shareholder challenges; internal investigations; and corporate governance matters.

Jack’s experience in sports and entertainment is diverse. His projects have included representing the winning bidder for a Major League Baseball franchise, negotiating contracts for professional hockey players, assisting with the financing for a pro football stadium, engaging in strategic endeavors involving European soccer teams, and representing assorted gaming and NIL companies. Presently, he acts as outside counsel for Hard Carry Gaming (dba NRG), a prominent gaming and entertainment company and the owner of multiple professional e-sports teams.

Credentials

Work Experience

  • Hinckley Allen
    • Partner (2018-Present)
  • Pierce Atwood
    • Partner (2013-2018)
  • Goodwin Procter LLP
    • Partner (2005-2012)
    • Associate and Partner (1988-1999)
  • McDermott, Will & Emery
    • Partner (2000-2004)
  • Ministry of Privatization of the Czech Republic
    • Foreign Legal Advisor (1993)

Honors & Awards

  • Best Lawyers in America® (2015-2024)
    • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
    • Corporate Law
    • Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Charitable & Civic Involvement

  • Masonic Angel Fund, Trustee
  • North Shore Rovers, Special Needs Soccer Club, Co-Founder and Head Coach

Bar Memberships

  • Massachusetts

Newsroom

Publication

The SPAC Train Rolls On

This article was featured in Lawyers Weekly on July 15, 2021.Over the past year, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a series of announcements seemingly designed to cool down the red-hot market for special purpose acquisition companies, or SPAC…

Publication

SPACs Meet SEC Headwinds

Amidst the ongoing surge in the number of special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) undertaking initial public offerings of securities and the SPACs’ related business combinations with private targets (commonly referred to as “de-SPAC transac…

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Firm News

Hinckley Allen Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America® 2024

A multitude of Hinckley Allen attorneys are recognized in their respective practice areas in Best Lawyers® 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. In addition, 11 Hinckley Allen attorneys were named in the “Lawyers of the Year” category, as wel…

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67 Hinckley Allen Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers in America® 2023

Hinckley Allen is pleased to announce that 67 attorneys are recognized in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, including 5 “Lawyers of the Year.” Best Lawyers® has also recognized 24 Hinckley Allen attorneys in their “Ones to Watch” …

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Case Study

Hinckley Allen Represents NRG in "League of Legends" Acquisition

Hinckley Allen represented its long-term client, NRG, a professional gaming and entertainment company headquarters in Los Angeles, California, in its acquisition of the "League of Legends" esports team and related assets from Madison Square Garden Sports C…

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Hinckley Allen Represents Leader in Managed Network Services in Sale to Managed Infrastructure Solutions Provider

Hinckley Allen represented Static1, a NJ-based managed network services expert, to 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider.  With the tools, processes and knowledge to design, build, run and optimize IT infrastructures, Static1 builds w…

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Events

Past Event

Virtual Event: Endicott College, Angle Center for Entrepreneurship - Spark U

February 15, 2022

In partnership with Endicott College's Angle Center for Entrepreneurship, Corporate Partner Jack Steele will present at Spark U about Legal Considerations for Entrepreneurs.Spark U is a compilation of four evening workshops spread throughout the month of F…