John Curran

John Curran is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group. His practices focuses on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits, including tax, ERISA, accounting, corporate, and securities law aspects of equity and other incentive compensation plans, qualified and nonqualified retirement and deferred compensation plans and executive employment and severance arrangements, including in connection with complex domestic and international business transactions. Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, John was a corporate associate in the Executive Compensation Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, where he advised clients on equity-based incentive compensation, employment, severance plans and other executive compensation arrangements.

John graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 2017. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Loyola University Maryland in 2007.

He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

 

Selected representative experience:*

• Patterson-UTI Energy’s $5.4 billion merger with NexTier Oilfield Solutions, simultaneously with its $780 million acquisition of Ulterra Drilling Technologies
• SilverBow Resources on its $2.1 billion sale to Crescent Energy
• Merck on its $1.3 billion acquisition of publicly-traded Imago Biosciences
• Kimberly-Clark on its $640 million sale of its global Personal Protective Equipment business to Ansell Limited
• Coterra Energy in its $3.95 billion acquisition of Franklin Mountain Energy and Avant Natural Resources
• Diversified Energy in its $1.275 billion acquisition of Maverick Natural Resources, a portfolio company of EIG Global Energy Partners
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Atlas Corp. in its $10.9 billion take-private transaction
• Eaton Corporation in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Fibrebond Corporation
• Juniper Capital in the sale of its upstream Rocky Mountain portfolio companies to Amplify Energy
• PAR Technology Corporation in various acquisitions and sales, including its sale of PAR Government Systems Corporation to Booz Allen Hamilton
• Clarivate Plc in its:
  • $6.8 billion combination with CPA Global
  • Clarivate’s $5.3 billion acquisition of ProQuest
  • $950 million acquisition of Decision Resources Group
• Payoneer’s $3.3 billion combination with FTAC Olympus Acquisition
• Sterling Equities and the New York Mets on the sale of the New York Mets Major League Baseball franchise
• Veritas Capital in various acquisitions and sales, including its:
  • $10.5 billion acquisition of Cotivi with KKR
  • $3.1 billion carve-out of the Wood Mackenzie business from Verisk
  • Acquisition of Edifecs by Cotiviti
• Elliott Management in its:
  • $7.1 billion take private acquisition of Syneos Health, Inc., a fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization, as part of a private investment consortium also consisting of Patient Square Capital and Veritas Capital
  • €1.2 billion acquisition of Associazione Calcio Milan (“AC Milan”) by RedBird Capital Partners
• Aurora Capital Partners in its:
  • acquisition of Universal Pure Holdings, LLC, a leading provider of high pressure processing and related food safety and technical services
  • acquisition of GenServe, a market-leading independent provider of backup power solutions for commercial, industrial and critical infrastructure applications
• CenterOak Partners in various acquisitions and sales
• The Chernin Group in its majority investment in BiggerPockets, a leading educational platform providing access to real estate investing

Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Capabilities

• Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits

Credentials

Education:

• Brooklyn Law School - 2017 Juris Doctor
• Loyola University, Maryland - 2007 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• New York Bar