Kendal B. Price Of Counsel

Kendal B. Price brings to Prince Lobel more than 17 years of experience in financial services, commercial law, corporate governance, compliance, and diversity. His corporate and financial services experience includes a broad range of complex transactional matters (domestic and international), regulatory, contract, and general advisory work. Kendal has a deep knowledge of the numerous risk management, compliance and employment issues addressed by in-house counsel in large, publicly-traded financial services companies as well as those facing small, privately-held companies.

Kendal’s work for financial service companies has included structuring and documentation advice on syndicated loans (guaranties and participations), swaps and derivatives (debt and credit), loan syndications, securitizations (collateralized loan obligations comprised of commercial and industrial loans) and intellectual property (software and hardware licensing and service level agreements). 

In addition, Kendal has participated in internal investigations relating to corporate compliance in connection with the failure to meet banking, tax, and securities law regulatory requirements, embezzlement, and material liabilities stemming from failures to adhere to employee safety requirements. Kendal served as an assistant secretary to the Risk Management Committee of the board of directors of FleetBoston Financial and has counseled senior management at other institutions in the course of his internal investigatory work. Reporting to the general counsel, Kendal served as chair of the diversity leadership councils of the law departments of BankBoston and FleetBoston.  

Most recently, Kendal served as chief of government services and an assistant corporation counsel for the city of Boston.  Prior to that, he was a senior vice president and senior counsel with several financial institutions, including State Street, Bank of America, FleetBoston Financial and BankBoston. 

From 2006 to 2008, when Kendal headed the corporate section of the City of Boston Law Department, he was primarily responsible for managing most of the corporate legal issues for the city. Supervising a staff of ten attorneys, he managed the city’s commercial contracting, real estate, environmental, zoning and development matters, and oversaw selected civil litigation. While there, he was also involved in CORI criminal reporting system reform initiatives and the advancement of the mayor’s executive proposals to promote Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) programs. 

Kendal was appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to serve as a member of the first SJC Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services.  He was a member of the Boston Bar Association’s Task Force on Corporate Governance (in the wake of Sarbanes – Oxley) and chair of the “Whistleblower” subcommittee. Kendal sat on the board of the Boston Initiative for Teen Pregnancy Prevention, a community-based program funded by the Centers for Disease Control. He also served on the board and finance committee of a Massachusetts women's health organization. Kendal was a member of the board of directors and served as corporate secretary for the Appalachian Mountain Club, a 95,000-member not-for-profit organization dedicated to outdoor conservation, recreation, and education.

For nearly 20 years, Kendal has been actively involved with, and has also been a featured speaker for, The Boston Lawyers’ Group, a consortium of private firms and in-house legal departments committed to increasing the number of attorneys of color in the profession.   

Kendal was the principal drafter of the section titled Whistleblower and Other Employee Protection Issues contained in the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Corporate Governance Report (July 2004).

In addition, he was a panelist at the 2007 American Bar Association National Conference for the Minority Lawyer, on the topic, Life, Law and Love: Career Issues for the Government and Public Interest Lawyer.

Prior to becoming an attorney, from 1981 to 1983 Kendal lived in apartheid-era South Africa, reporting on socio-political issues as a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs. His fellowship was titled The Cultures of South Africa, Its Black Homelands and the Bordering African States, and included work in Zimbabwe and South West Africa/Namibia.

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts

Education

• Boston University School of Law, J.D., 1992
• The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, M.A.L.D., 1992
• Dartmouth College, A.B., 1978