Jeanette Taylor-Reay
(Robert's Assistant)
jeanette.taylor-reay@fmjlaw.com
Rob Fafinski practices in the Mergers & Acquisitions and General Corporate & Business Practice Groups at FMJ. Rob represents both financial and strategic buyers in acquisitions, and he has represented dozens of companies on the sell-side. Rob helps companies, including portfolio companies of buy-side clients, in their day-to-day legal needs. Rob also focuses on helping self-funded search fund operators navigate and close their entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) deals. Rob enjoys ETA transactions and founder-led sell-side deals because of the teaching and coaching opportunities unique to those transactions.
A client endorsed Rob after a recent eight-figure, international deal saying, “I’m so grateful to Rob. He made the process approachable. He went above-and-beyond . . . and was always available and accessible. I couldn’t be more impressed and couldn’t recommend him more . . . and he was perfectly on budget.”
Clients like working with Rob because he is never afraid to pick up the phone to keep a deal moving toward closing. After working as a Marine Corps infantry officer commanding platoons and a company on multiple, austere combat deployments to Afghanistan during 2009, 2010, and 2011, Rob understands true leadership challenges. Clients recognize this in Rob and use him as a sounding board and adviser.
Marquette University (BA)
University of St. Thomas School of Law (JD)
Minnesota
United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
University of St. Thomas School of Law – Transactional v. Litigation v. Non-Traditional – What Does it All Mean, and What Career Paths Are Out There? (February 2024)
University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management Conference – Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) (November 2023)
“The Price Escalation Clause: A Manufacturer’s Refuge for Uncertain Supply Chains,” FMJ Newsroom (December 2021)
“Taking It One Day at a Time: Mergers and Acquisitions Activity, Market Volatility, and COVID-19,” FMJ Newsroom (April 2020)
“I approach my practice by striving to embody some of the same traits required of a successful Marine infantry leader: judgment, dependability, initiative, decisiveness, knowledge, and loyalty. When working on transactions, I eat, sleep, and breathe the deal until it’s closed.”
Rob lives along the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge and spends free time kayaking, bow hunting, reading, hiking, and weightlifting. He and his wife Ali have two daughters, Ada and Cecilia, and two sons, Robert IV (“Beau”) and Theodore.