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Corporate/M&A & Private Equity

Florida: North & Central

4 Years Ranked

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Provided by John C Connery Jr

USA

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions; Venture Capital & Private Equity; Tax; Joint Ventures & Partnerships; Corporate & Transactional; Entity Formation & Tax Structuring

Career

John Connery is practice chair of Hill Ward Henderson's Corporate & Tax Group. He has a diverse transactional practice, with an emphasis on advising family offices, venture capital funds, companies, angel investors and private equity funds and their portfolio companies on structuring and negotiating complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, growth capital investments, joint ventures, fund formations and recapitalizations. John advises investors, developers and property managers on real estate joint ventures and regularly serves as outside general counsel to growing, middle market companies. He has substantial experience in structuring and tax planning for transactions.

John acts as counsel to a number of institutional private equity and real estate investment and development clients, including KLH Capital, Mangrove Equity Partners, Clearwell Group, The Ferrante Group, Parkstone Growth Partners, Meridian Development Group, Landeavor, Fairbourne Properties, Third Lake Partners and Third Lake Capital.

He is a Certified Public Accountant in Florida. Prior to joining Hill Ward Henderson, John worked as an audit associate with Arthur Andersen in its Tampa office and practiced tax law in the Chicago office of the international law firm Mayer Brown.

Experience

• PainTEQ, a medical device company, from its formation in a variety of contractual, intellectual property, governance and strategic matters.

• KLH Capital in its investment in Mid-State Industrial Maintenance, Inc. ("Mid-State") and Mid-State in connection with its recapitalization with CenterGate Capital.

• Fairbourne Properties in its joint venture with Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association to buy and manage Town Square Las Vegas, a 1.2 million square foot retail center near the Las Vegas Strip.

• McNeel International in its sale of Olefinas, a leading agricultural plastics company with operations in Guatemala and Mexico to Coveris Holdings S.A.

• Digarc, a Lakeland, Florida e-catalog and curriculum management solutions provider, in a growth capital investment by Serent Capital, a San Francisco private equity fund.

• King Engineering in the sale of a majority equity interest to Kain Capital, a New York private equity fund.

• Plexcera Therapeutics in its restructuring and formation of a new biopharmaceutical company with Roivant Sciences Ltd.

• A family office in its equity investments in senior living and memory care facilities.

• Third Lake Capital in its investment in One St. Petersburg, a 41-story condominium tower in St. Petersburg, Florida.

• KLH Capital in its investment in ANS Distributing and sale of its investment in ANS Distributing to Jones & Frank.

• Marxent Labs in raising growth capital from Detroit Venture Partners and other investors.

• Fairbourne Properties, LLC and certain of its affiliates, in a joint venture with Harbert United States Real Estate Fund VI, L.P. in connection with the acquisition and development of a 358,615 square foot lifestyle shopping center located in Brentwood, California

• Meridian Development Group in its investment in, partnership restructuring and management of an approximate 1,000,000 square foot warehouse facility

• Corporate and tax expert witness in real estate joint venture litigation.

Awards

AV Preeminent® Rating

Martindale-Hubbell

Florida Super Lawyers (2010-2013, 2020-2022)

Super Lawyers

Best Lawyers in America (2013-2023)

Best Lawyers in America©

TAMPA Magazine's Top Lawyers: Business Organizations Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law

Tampa Magazine

2023

Education

Chicago-Kent College of Law, High Honors

J.D.

1998

University of South Florida

M.Acc.

1994

University of Florida

B.S.

1993

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