Joseph J. Curran, Greenberg Traurig

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A shareholder and member of the Global Tax Practice at Boston’s Greenberg Traurig, Joseph J. Curran is a transactional tax attorney with a practice that focuses on income taxation of corporations, s-corporations and partnerships.

Curran’s areas of counsel include the tax consequences of taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy and insolvency restructurings, joint ventures and debt and equity financings.

In that capacity, Curran advises issuers and underwriters in public and private equity and debt offerings and brings a depth of experience advising emerging companies, private equity firms, portfolio companies and tax-exempt organizations.

Meanwhile, Curran works closely with the firm’s transactional practice groups across the country to help structure and close complicated deals.

Curran routinely advises private equity sponsors and strategic investors on transactions that typically range $50 million and $500 million in value and has handled hundreds of M&A transactions.

Most recently, Curran represented Eutelsat Group, a satellite telecommunications company, in the unwinding of its 50/50 joint venture company with Airbus, a global leader in aerospace, including the sale of OneWeb’s 50-percent interest.

Curran’s represented Patient Square Capital in its merger agreement to acquire Hanger, Inc. for cash consideration of $18.75 per share, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $1.25 billion. He also represented ITT Inc. in its acquisition of Habonim Valves and Actuators Ltd., an Israeli valve manufacturer.

Additionally, Curran represented Monomyth Group in the creation of Anovion, an advanced materials technology company, reportedly North America’s first commercially operational capacity dedicated to synthetic graphite anode material. The complex, multilateral transaction was positioned to capitalize on the rapidly growing lithium-ion battery supply chain in the United States.