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John Creed is a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where he is a member of the Firm’s Tax Department. Mr. Creed’s practice includes advising on private equity funds, hedge funds, mergers and acquisitions (including tax-free spin-offs), cross-border tax matters, partnerships, joint ventures, securitizations and financing transactions.
The clients Mr. Creed has advised in private equity and fund transactions have included Blackstone, Cypress, Evercore, Lehman Brothers, The Carlyle Group, Quadrangle, JC Flowers and many others. Mr. Creed has advised private equity funds, investment banks and corporations in the structuring of various acquisitions, financings, financial instruments and restructurings. He has also advised non-U.S. corporations in structuring acquisitions and operations in the United States and non-U.S. issuers in raising capital in the United States. Mr. Creed has worked on numerous domestic and international joint venture transactions including investment in Asia, Latin America, South Africa, Europe and Japan.
Mr. Creed was recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2011 as a leading tax lawyer in New York.
Mr. Creed became a partner at Simpson Thacher in 1996. He graduated with High Honors in 1985 from Trinity College Dublin School of Law and received his L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1988.
Mr. Creed is a Member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1986.
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New York 1986 |
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U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit 1986 |
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Trinity College Dublin Faculty of Law, 1985 |
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