About Dean
Dean R. Einck is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at S&I whose work focuses on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures of businesses, corporate law, tax law, estate planning, and communications law, employee benefits and executive compensation. Dean is the chair of the Media and Communications Practice Group and has significant experience representing media companies including newspapers, commercial printers, television stations and internet businesses. Dean is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and in Super Lawyers® for Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates and in Super Lawyers® for Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax and Estate Planning and Probate. Dean is also a certified public accountant (inactive) in Iowa. Dean is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and Iowa State Bar Foundation, a past member of the Iowa State Bar Association Board of Governors, a Director and past chairperson of the board of Abbe, Inc. and is the Chairperson of the Board of the Abbe Center for Community Care, Inc. Dean also serves as a Volunteer Attorney for Iowa Legal Aid.
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Tax Law, Cedar Rapids (2025)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Cedar Rapids (2018)
- Lawyer of the Year: Tax Law, Cedar Rapids (2016)
- Recognized: Corporate Law
- Recognized: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Recognized: Tax Law
- Recognized: Trusts and Estates
- Practice Area: Communications Law
- Listed as a Great Plains Super Lawyer®--Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions, Estate Planning & Probate
- Martindale-Hubbell, Inc. Rating “AV”
- Named Cedar Rapids “Lawyer of the Year” for Mergers and Acquisitions (2018) by Best Lawyers in America®
- Named Cedar Rapids “Lawyer of the Year” Tax Law (2016) by Best Lawyers in America®
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®–Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates