Overview

Christopher Marotta is a tax attorney in Holland & Knight's Boston office. Mr. Marotta assists clients with a range of domestic and international tax issues, including in relation to negotiating and structuring the purchase and sale of businesses, negotiating loan agreements for lenders and borrowers, drafting joint venture agreements (including with respect to real estate matters), advising insurers on representation and warranty policy coverage, structuring inbound and outbound investments, forming investment funds, drafting United States tax disclosures for private placement memoranda and public offerings, and other issues relating to mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Marotta advised private equity and corporate clients on the tax aspects of bankruptcies and domestic and multinational mergers and acquisitions in the New York office of an international law firm. He also has experience providing advice on the structuring of investments in overseas and domestic target companies and other domestic and international tax matters from working in the New York office of an international accounting firm.

In 2017, Mr. Marotta received the editor's prize from the American Bankruptcy Law Journal for an article analyzing the use of bankruptcy examiners. He also has been published in the Banking Law Journal, Bloomberg Tax Management Memorandum and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

Representative Experience

  • Assisted publicly traded infrastructure engineering group MasTec Inc. with the acquisition of the fifth largest United States utility infrastructure provider Henkels & McCoy Group Inc., in a transaction valued at $600 million
  • Assisted publicly traded infrastructure engineering group MasTec Inc. with the acquisition of the electrical distribution provider Intren LLC, in a transaction valued at $420 million
  • Assisted a publicly traded energy equipment manufacturing and services company with the negotiation of a joint venture agreement with an energy technology company to manufacture air conditioning and atmospheric water harvesting products
  • Represented a real estate developer in obtaining a $581 million construction loan from private lenders for the development of a mixed-use project, including retail and life sciences labs and offices
  • Represented one of the counterparties in a merger of two publicly traded financial services companies, in a transaction valued at $740 million
  • Assisted a nonprofit healthcare and hospital system with negotiation of a joint venture agreement for ambulatory surgery centers with operators and providers
  • Assisted a Danish publicly traded information technology company in the acquisition of a U.S.-based supply chain consulting provider for the life sciences industry
  • Assisted an international real estate manager and developer in its sale of student housing apartment complexes located in the U.S. to a peer developer, in a transaction valued at $150 million
  • Assisted a multinational hospitality company with the negotiation of a joint venture agreement for the development of a new U.S.-based hotel with a third-party developer, in a transaction valued at $115 million
  • Assisted a national real estate developer with negotiation of a joint venture agreement with a third-party for a residential planned community located in California, in a transaction valued at $75 million
  • Assisted a real estate investment and tax credit syndication fund with negotiation of a joint venture agreement regarding a 314-unit apartment community redevelopment
  • Assisted a publicly traded finance and banking company with negotiation of a $100 million credit facility being provided to a commercial construction site provider
  • Assisted a publicly traded finance and banking company with negotiation and restatement of a long-term loan agreement being provided to a top AmLaw 50 law firm
  • Assisted a private lender with negotiation of financing for an investment by a private equity sponsor in a specialty seed treatment provider
  • Represented an international cigar maker in its sale to a non-U.S. strategic acquirer, in a transaction valued at $72 million
  • Assisted a pharmaceutical developer in the acquisition of the assets of a regulated pharmaceutical manufacturer
  • Represented the founders of a multinational nutritional and medical products business in their sale to a large strategic acquirer
  • Represented a cardiology group in their sale to a private equity-backed national cardiovascular care platform
  • Represented a publicly traded money transmittal company in its acquisition of a peer provider based outside of the U.S.
  • Assisted a private equity backed multinational platform for manufacture and distribution of heavy-duty truck accessories in its sale to a private equity acquirer
  • Assisted a private equity acquirer with the acquisition of a U.S.-based manufacturer of heavy duty construction equipment parts
  • Assisted the founders of a tree nursery and landscaping services company in its sale to a private equity acquirer
  • Assisted a nonprofit university in acquiring another nonprofit university located in the same region
  • Assisted a Section 501(c)(6) organization in its acquisition of a leadership development consulting firm
  • Represented the founders of a national convenience store chain in their sale to a strategic acquirer
  • Assisted with the redrafting and restatement of the limited partnership agreement among the professional partners that make up a top 50 U.S.-based architectural partnership
  • Represented a family office in its sale of a water purification systems design and manufacturing provider to a private equity acquirer

Credentials

Education
  • New York University School of Law, LL.M.
  • University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D.
  • Bowdoin College, B.A.
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Florida
  • Massachusetts
  • New York
Honors & Awards
  • Holland & Knight Pro Bono All-Star, 2021

Publications