Mr. Fink is Co-Founder and a Principal of the Firm.  Mr. Fink received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Rhode Island in 1986.  Thereafter, Mr. Fink served Cowen and Company and its institutional, options and arbitrage departments as a Floor Clerk on the American Stock Exchange.  Mr. Fink then earned his Master of Science in Hotel Administration from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 1995 where he was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Research Award for his paper "The Impact on Clark County Gaming Revenues from the Proliferation of Gaming Throughout the Country."  While earning his degree, Mr. Fink worked for Mirage Resorts in Las Vegas, Nevada conducting casino analysis.  In 1998, Mr. Fink received his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.  Mr. Fink is licensed to practice in the State of California, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

          Mr. Fink has extensive experience in litigating complex insurance class action cases, securities arbitration cases, consumer fraud cases, invasion of privacy and wiretapping cases, shareholder derivative cases, ERISA class actions and securities fraud cases.  Mr. Fink's expertise has been recognized on numerous occasions by courts who have appointed him to leadership positions charged with prosecuting complex litigations on behalf of plaintiffs.

          Jeffrey P. Fink has broad experience in corporate, securities and shareholder derivative litigation.  Most recently, Mr. Fink, in one of the most politically controversial corporate mergers in recent history, recently secured over $500 million to Unocal Corporation shareholders as part of an increased bid by Chevron Corporation in Leib, et al. v. Unocal Corp., et al., Case No. BC331316 (Cal. Super. Ct.).  Additionally, Mr. Fink was instrumental in causing Unocal to issue a supplemental proxy statement that allowed Unocal shareholders to have a fully informed vote when considering Chevron Corporation's bid versus that of the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation.