Currivan, John D.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

John Currivan has wide experience in the taxation of partnerships and limited liability companies, including a variety of venture capital transactions, private equity fund formation, corporate joint ventures, partnership acquisitions and dispositions, and complex restructurings of debt and equity interests. He also has substantial experience in tax-free exchanges involving real estate and personal property. John is coordinator of the Tax Practice in the Firm's Cleveland Office.

John provided the principal advice on partnership debt and equity restructuring in the bankruptcy of Chrysler. Transactions in which John was the principal advisor on partnership tax matters include the formation of joint ventures between Micron and Intel, between Goodrich and Rolls Royce, and between T-Mobile and Cingular. John provides tax advice to a variety of private equity and venture capital funds, including Riverside, Key Principal Partners, Morgenthaler, and Primus.

John is coauthor of the BNA Portfolio "Corporate Bankruptcy." He is also coauthor of a book on Ohio limited liability companies and the principal author of an article on contingent obligations in partnerships. John is a frequent speaker at the Cleveland Tax Institute, has chaired the Institute, and currently serves on its Executive Committee. He also has been a speaker at the Tax Executives Institute. John has been an adjunct professor at Case Law School, teaching advanced partnership taxation. He is a member of the ABA's Section of Taxation and its Subsection of Partnerships and LLCs.

Areas of Practice

• Tax
• Real Estate & Pass-Through Entities/Tax
• Taxation of Municipal Bonds
• Health Care
• Tax & Benefits/Health Care

Representative Cases

• Cleveland Clinic Foundation receives financing for ten story heart hospital
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation restructures systemwide debt
• Cleveland-Cliffs acquires interest in Empire Mine
• Cumulus Media acquires Susquehanna Radio for $1.5 billion , (2009)
• DaimlerChrysler AG forms joint venture with Metaldyne Corp.
• Industrial Growth Partners sells Breeze Industrial Products
• Institutional investor restructures $300 million hotel fund , (2010)
• J.P. Morgan Securities offers revenue bonds to National Healthcare Research and Education Finance Corporation
• J.P. Morgan Securities underwrites bonds for building construction on Cleveland Clinic campus
• JumpStart invests in Day-Day
• Key Principal Partners acquires Kellermeyer Building Services
• Key Principal Partners invests in Kan-Pak , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital acquires Instron Corporation
• Kirtland Capital forms Kirtland Capital Partners IV
• Micron Technology forms IM Flash Singapore, a joint venture with Intel Corporation in Singapore , (2009)
• Micron Technology forms IM Flash Technologies, a $5.2 billion joint venture with Intel Corporation , (2009)
• Morgenthaler acquires assets of Skill Tool & Die
• Morgenthaler acquires Avtron Manufacturing , (2009)
• Morgenthaler forms VC and LBO fund
• Noro-Moseley forms Noro-Moseley Partners V
• Noro-Moseley Partners forms venture capital fund
• Noro-Moseley purchases membership interests of NeoSpine
• Ohio Savings Bank forms $75 million U.S. real estate fund
• Parallel Investment Partners forms buyout fund
• PolyOne sells interest in Oxy Vinyls to Occidental Chemical Corp , (2009)
• Primus Venture forms $285 million venture capital fund
• Procter & Gamble sells juice-based drink businesses to J.W. Childs Associates, L.P.
• Resilience Capital forms leveraged buyout fund
• Riverside completes take private acquisition of The Dwyer Group
• Riverside forms $250 million leveraged buyout fund
• Riverside forms $61 million European fund LBO
• Riverside forms $750 million LBO fund
• Riverside forms Riverside Europe Fund II
• SolutionSet acquired by Haggin Marketing , (2009)
• Stonehenge Partners and Primus Venture Partners make preferred stock investment in Installed Business Products
• Stonehenge Partners forms fund in JV with Huntington
• SunCal Co. acquires Westland Development for $250 million
• Townsend Group invests in various property funds
• Viking Group sells shares to Minimax in a complex multi-country stock sale, a transaction that will create a combined company with over $1.5 billion in sales and 6,000 employees , (2009)
• Wasserstein & Co. sells interest in Prism Business Media to MidOcean Partners
• WL Ross leads buyout of Horizon Natural Resources

West Practice Categories

Corporate Taxation, Disability, Elder Law, Estate & Gift Taxation, Excise Taxes, Food & Drug Administration, Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, Income Taxation, International Taxation, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Nursing Home, Payroll Taxes, Property (Ad Valorem) Taxes, Real Estate Law, Sales & Use Taxes, Social Security -- Disability, Taxation Law

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Cornell University
• U of California - Berkeley
• U of West Florida

Published Works

• Proposed Regulations Modify Arbitrage Regulations, 2007

Address

North Point
901 Lakeside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114-1190

Phones

1.216.586.7262 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.216.579.0212 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com