John C Connery Jr

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.

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