About Chris
Chris Dahl built a foundation in communications and political science at Ithaca College, where he earned a B.S. in 1980. He went on to complete a J.D. at Northeastern University in 1984. Later study at Harvard University broadened his understanding of corporate finance, EU law and antitrust issues. Those academic threads run through his career.
He entered private practice and corporate counsel roles across the Boston-area legal market. By 1999 he was a partner at Gesmer Updegrove, LLP, advising clients on commercial matters and governance. In 2004 he is listed as managing partner of Dahl Legal Counsel and that same year took on the role of general counsel at CoreStreet, Ltd. His résumé records a series of in-house appointments after that: general counsel at Castile Ventures in 2007 and general counsel at Evernote Corporation in 2011. A later listing again identifies him as managing partner at Dahl Legal Counsel in 2016.
Those positions shaped a practice that bridges transactional work and in-house legal operations. As general counsel he handled corporate governance, contract negotiation and regulatory questions. His Harvard coursework in EU law and antitrust informs cross-border and competition-related aspects of deals. He also brings experience in matters where technology and corporate finance intersect.
Colleagues and clients have turned to him for guidance on commercial agreements, governance issues and the legal infrastructure that growing companies need. He has moved between outside and inside roles enough times to understand both boardroom priorities and the day-to-day demands of running a legal department. That perspective has informed his approach to counseling investors and management teams when structuring transactions or addressing compliance concerns.
Dahl practices in Massachusetts and operates through Dahl Legal Counsel, where he has served in a leadership capacity. He combines litigation-adjacent experience from his early private-practice days with years of general counsel work at corporate and venture-backed entities. He currently concentrates his practice on corporate and technology transactions and general counsel services.
