wjcurtin@hhlaw.com
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William
J.
Curtin, III
Partner, New York, London, Paris*
Bill Curtin is a Director of the firm's corporate, securities, and finance practice group and Chair of its European corporate, securities, and finance group. Bill's practice focuses on international business transactions, notably in the United States and across Europe.
Bill represents publicly and privately held companies, as well as major investors, in a variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, tender offers and exchange offers, joint ventures, strategic alliances, restructurings and recapitalizations, strategic and financial investments, and debt and equity financings. He has participated in transactions involving a number of industries, including aerospace and defense, government contracts, life sciences, manufacturing, automotive, satellite, telecommunications, media and entertainment, hotel and leisure, and technology.
Bill has experience advising U.S. and European companies on general business matters from their initial organization through maturity. He has acted as lead corporate counsel on some of the most significant business transactions in the United States and Europe, with primary responsibility for the structuring, negotiation, and implementation of a wide range of complex commercial arrangements for clients. Bill also counsels boards of directors and special committees of boards on corporate governance matters and on transactions raising fiduciary duty and business judgment considerations.
Bill is co-author of a comprehensive article on cross-border business combination transactions which has been cited by the SEC as one of several authoritative sources on the matter ("Cross-Border Tender Offers and Other Business Combination Transactions and the U.S. Federal Securities Laws: An Overview," The Business Lawyer, May 2006, Vol 61, Number 3).
Bill has received widespread recognition as a leading transactional lawyer. In 2009 he was runner-up for The Lawyer’s "Partner of the Year" award in London, and was one of eight corporate lawyers profiled in The Deal’s "Faces of Deal Lawyers" as poised to become significant figures of the bars in leading commercial centers of the world. In 2008 Bill was named one of the top 100 M&A attorneys worldwide by clients in BTI's Transactions All-Star Team Report, which recognizes outstanding client service performance through independent research of more than 180 corporate counsel. Most recently, Bill was selected as being among 592 of the world's leading Merger & Acquisition lawyers by the The International Who's Who.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Representation of Ford Motor Company in its sale of Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors Limited for approximately US$2.3 billion.
Representation of News Corp. in connection with several transactions in Europe, including significant investments in the German media sector.
Representation of British Sky Broadcasting Group plc in its +EUR1 billion strategic investment in the German pay television market.
Representation of French- and NASDAQ-listed smart-card manufacturer Gemplus International S.A. on its business combination with Axalto Holding N.V., creating Gemalto N.V., and generating expected combined pro forma revenues of US$2.1 billion.
Representation of Ford Motor Company in its sale of a U.S. subsidiary, Automobile Protection Corporation, to a global private equity firm.
Representation of the co-founders and senior management of The Motley Fool, Inc., a leading worldwide multimedia financial-services company, in a series of restructuring and recapitalization transactions.
Representation of a recognized Middle Eastern investor in a series of strategic and financial investments in the hotel and leisure, telecommunications, and media and entertainment industries in England, Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Representation of MRJ Technology Solutions in connection with its stock-for-stock merger with Veridian Corporation, an IT services provider to the federal government, with Veridian absorbing MRJ.
Representation of Hi-Media, a French-listed company specialized in interactive marketing, on its acquisition of Fotolog, Inc. for a combination of cash and Hi-Media stock traded in Paris.
Representation of Gemplus International S.A. (now Gemalto N.V.) in connection with various transactions throughout Europe, including: the sale of its Austrian subsidiary to Ski Data AG, a publicly traded Swiss company; the acquisition of Setec Oy, the former Bank of Finland's banknote printer; and the sale of its TAGS Business to AXA Private Equity.
*Bill is a member of the Maryland, New York, and Washington, D.C. bars.
Hogan & Hartson Publications
10.02.2008
"SEC Amends Rules for Cross-Border Business Combination Transactions." SEC Update, Hogan & Hartson LLP
05.20.2008
"SEC Proposes Revisions to Rules for Cross-Border Business Combinations." SEC Update, Hogan & Hartson LLP
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