Gregg has a multifaceted tax law practice that encompasses advising companies and individuals on a wide range of tax issues related to transactions, estate tax planning, and renewable energy projects.
Gregg has significant experience with tax issues involving US and cross-border taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, crossborder tax structuring, partnerships, and limited liability companies. He regularly represents US and international sponsors of, and investors in, private equity and other investment funds, as well as investors and developers in renewable energy projects.
In addition to his transactional work, Gregg counsels US and international high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and closely held businesses on a variety of US and cross-border income and estate tax planning issues.
Gregg also maintains an active pro bono practice that has included representing nonprofit organizations focused on poverty reduction and arts education.
Prior to joining Mintz, Gregg was a partner at a Canadian- and US-based law firm, where he advised clients on tax matters relating to transactions, estate tax planning, and renewable energy projects. He previously practiced at several international law firms, developing particular capabilities in negotiating and document tax provisions in complex corporate transactions. He has also worked at major accounting firms, as a director and in a transaction advisory role.
Experience
- Represented a Canadian pension investment management company in its acquisition of 49% of the Class B interests held by an affiliate of a US-based renewable energy company in a wind farm project in Texas.
- Served as special Canadian and US securities law and tax counsel to a saving and investing app in its sale to a digital payments and financial technology company listed on the TSX and Nasdaq. The share-for-share transaction valued the company at approximately $50 million.
- Advised a private equity firm focused on the metals and mining sector in its sale of a gold-mining site in Nevada to a gold production and exploration company for consideration valued at up to $85 million.
- Represented an independent asset management company in the formation of a $1.2 billion fund focused on investments in North America, with limited partners from Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia.
- Advised an electric utility holding company in concurrent offerings of common shares yielding aggregate proceeds of approximately $1.2 billion. The offerings included a $690 million deal in Canada and the United States using the multijurisdictional disclosure system, including the exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option and a concurrent $500 million registered direct offering to an institutional investor.
- Acted as Canadian and US counsel to an investment banking company in an at-the-market equity offering by a cannabis company in Canada and the United States under the multijurisdictional disclosure system.
- Advised a Canadian multinational investment bank and a syndicate of lenders in the establishment of a $275 million revolving credit facility for a vitamin and natural health product manufacturer and its US subsidiary.
- Represented a metals distribution company in its $160 million acquisition of a Texas-based supplier of pipe, valves, and fittings to oil and gas companies in the United States.
- Advised a flexible packaging maker in the $215 million sale of its three health care manufacturing facilities to a globally integrated company that develops and manufactures products for a number of end markets, including medical, pharmaceutical, food, beverage, personal care, household, and industrial.
- Counseled a Canadian chemical and manufacturing company on the formation of a new defense business. The company’s defense business and other operations in Québec merged with a privately owned, US-based manufacturer of defense products in a transaction valued at approximately US$132.7 million.
- Represented a minority stockholder of a private company in a buyout of the majority stockholder of that company through a cross-border acquisition of all the company’s assets in a transaction that involved both equity and debt financing from a private equity firm and an institutional lender.
- Advised a global developer and manufacturer of value-added consumable solutions for industrial and medical applications, including imaging and ink supplies, in its sale to an international private equity investment firm.
- Represented a manufacturer of pressure-sensitive tapes in connection with its acquisition by a TSX-listed tape manufacturing company.
viewpoints
IRA Update: IRS Releases Limited Guidance on Low-Income Community Adder and Establishes Allocation Program Needed to Make the Adder Available
February 16, 2023 | Alert | By Anne S. Levin-Nussbaum, Gregg M. Benson
IRA Update: IRS Announces Updated Reference Standard for Energy Efficient Commercial Building Property Deduction Under Section 179D
December 28, 2022 | Alert | By Anne S. Levin-Nussbaum, Gregg M. Benson
IRA Update: IRS Releases Reporting Requirements for EV Manufacturers and Sellers
December 22, 2022 | Alert | By Anne S. Levin-Nussbaum, Gregg M. Benson
Public Comments Requested on Additional Aspects of the IRA Clean Energy Tax Incentives, including Clean Hydrogen Production, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Clean Commercial Vehicles and EV Charging Stations
November 7, 2022 | Alert | By Anne S. Levin-Nussbaum, Gregg M. Benson, David Salamon, Xandy Walsh
Last Call: Public Comments on Inflation Reduction Act Clean Energy Tax Incentives Are Requested By November 4
November 3, 2022 | Alert | By Anne S. Levin-Nussbaum, Xandy Walsh, Gregg M. Benson
On October, 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service published six Notices requesting public comments by November 4, 2022 on certain of the clean energy tax incentives included in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. However, the IRS and Treasury will consider written comments received after November 4 that do not delay the relevant guidance. Input from industry stakeholders is important to help inform next steps for the IRS and Treasury and shape how these clean energy tax incentives are accessed in practice.
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Summary of Important Tax Provisions Included in the Recently Announced Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
August 1, 2022 | Alert | By Gregg M. Benson, Anne S. Levin-Nussbaum, David Salamon
House Democrats Weigh Major Tax Changes for Businesses, Funds, and Individuals
October 12, 2021 | Alert | By Gregg M. Benson, Anthony DeMaio
Read about the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee’s proposed tax legislation intended to partially fund the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act to fund Democratic priorities.
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News & Press
Mintz’s Private Equity Practice Appoints New Leadership
November 17, 2022
Mintz has appointed Members Gregory Fine and Matthew T. Simpson to co-lead the Private Equity practice alongside current chair, Kurt Steinkrauss. The change is effective immediately.
Mintz Represents Ferra Holdings In Its Sale To Accurus
April 11, 2022
Mintz Continues Expansion of Premier Tax Practice with Timothy Santoli
February 23, 2022
Mintz’s Private Equity Practice Steers Complex Deals Across Industries, Experiences Strategic Growth in 2021
January 26, 2022
As the pandemic and favorable market conditions drove record M&A and private equity dealmaking in 2021, Mintz’s Private Equity Practice handled a number of complex and impactful middle-market transactions for a growing number of private equity funds across the country spanning a variety of industries, including Charlesbank Capital Partners, DW Healthcare Partners, and Monomoy Capital Partners. In addition, the firm added several practitioners with extensive transactional knowledge to its deep bench to support private equity clients.
Mintz Adds Leading Tax Attorney Gregg Benson in New York
October 04, 2021
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