Jeff Cook

Chairman @Cohen Kinne Valicenti & Cook

Pittsfield, MA, US

Jeff is the senior member of the firm’s Business Group and has earned a reputation of being highly skilled in managing complicated business transactions and business crises. He has more than 35 years of experience working on mergers and acquisitions for buyers and sellers. Jeff advises new and established businesses on all aspects of capital formation and he counts among his clients a number of the larger multi-generational businesses located in and around the Berkshires. He serves many corporate clients as general counsel, often dealing with such matters as business development and ownership succession.Jeff is very actively involved in economic development. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Secretary of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable. He is also one of the organizers and the current Chairman of the Berkshire Business Roundtable.Jeff represents the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. and other cultural organizations located within and outside the Berkshires and regularly counsels them on business, tax and regulatory matters.