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Jeffrey S. Muller
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Jeffrey S. Muller

Partner

Chair, Tax & Employee Benefits Practice

973.848.5372
Newark
jmuller@mccarter.com

Jeffrey Muller provides practical and business-forward solutions to help his clients achieve their objectives in complex transactions.

Jeffrey Muller is a partner in, and chair of, the firm’s Tax, Employee Benefits and Private Clients Group. His practice focuses on federal income taxation with an emphasis on transactional matters. He regularly advises clients on choice of entity considerations, mergers and acquisitions, business restructurings, real estate transactions, partnership matters and other joint ventures.

Jeff also has extensive experience representing clients in business planning and corporate matters such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate matters across many industries.

With respect to his concentration in mergers and acquisitions, Jeff’s representative transactions include:

Representation of Verisk Analytics, Inc., a leading data analytics provider, in numerous acquisitions and divestitures, including the following:

  • $200 million (plus up to $80 million earnout) acquisition of PowerAdvocate;
  • $151 million acquisition of LCI;
  • $112 million acquisition of G2 Web Services;
  • $820 million divestiture of Verisk’s healthcare services business to Veritas Capital; and
  • $155 million divestiture of Interthinx

Representation of White Wolf Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in a Canadian-based manufacturing company;

Representation of Convene in connection with a recapitalization transaction and the issuance of Series A Preferred Units to Conversion Venture Capital and Boathouse Capital;

Representation of Colortree Group, Inc. with its acquisition of Direct Impressions, Inc.; and
Representation of RTP Technology in its sale to Mainline Information Systems.

Prior to joining McCarter, Jeff was a member of KPMG, LLP’s tax practice, representing corporate clients on federal tax planning and compliance issues.

Representative Matters

Emerald Cactus Ventures—Stock-for-cash acquisition

Completed the sale of Emerald Cactus Ventures to Avast Software s.r.o. in a stock-for-cash transaction.  We represented ECV, which is a developer and marketer of Tenta, a private and encrypted mobile browser with built-in VPN, decentralized DNS capabilities (e.g., to access blockchain protocols), ad blocker, video downloader, encrypted media vault and other advanced security and privacy features.

Syntimmune—Stock-for-cash transaction

Completed the sale of this biotechnology company to Alexion in a stock-for-cash transaction. We represented Syntimmune founders Richard Blumberg, MD, and Laurence Blumberg, MD, as well as their family office and the AFB Fund, the initial institutional investor and largest common stockholder. Syntimmune develops novel therapies for a wide range of autoimmune disorders, driven by the founders’ discoveries related to the unique role of FcRn in mediating immune response. 

Visual Lease—Financing

Closed a private equity financing by Spectrum Equity on behalf of this lease accounting and administration platform. Visual Lease, LLC, provides a cloud-based software specifically designed to manage companies’ real estate and equipment leases. 

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Recognitions

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New Jersey Super Lawyer, 2013–2016

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Tax & Employee Benefits 

Education

New York University School of Law LLM, 2005
Seton Hall University School of Law JD, 2001
Marist College BS, 1998

Bar Admissions

New Jersey
New York

Court Admissions

U.S. District CourtDistrict of New Jersey

Memberships & Certifications

American Bar Association, Tax Section

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