Jared Grimley advises domestic and multinational corporations on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including tax-free spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings.

Jared provides a solutions-oriented approach with a commercial perspective, and brings familiarity with complex modeling and analysis. He draws on nearly fifteen years in the financial derivatives industry, including in structuring, trading and risk management roles. 

Jared speaks and writes about tax topics, including for the International Tax Journal and the Tax Executives Institute.

Jared counsels clients on the tax aspects of major strategic transactions. His representative experience includes advising: 

  • Topgolf Callaway Brands in connection with the planned spin-off of its venue-based golf entertainment business
  • Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. in connection with the spin-off of its Seaport Entertainment division 
  • Worthington Enterprises, Inc. (formerly Worthington Industries, Inc.) in connection with the spin-off of its steel processing business
  • Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. in connection with the spin-off of its OmniAb antibody discovery business
  • Enovis Corporation (formerly Colfax Corporation) in connection with the spin-off of its fabrication technology business
  • Arch Resources in its merger of equals with CONSOL Energy, creating Core Natural Resources, a premier natural resource company focused on global markets
  • Woodside Energy in its pending US$2.35 billion acquisition of OCI Clean Ammonia Holding B.V., including its lower carbon ammonia project located in Texas
  • Enerplus Corporation on its US$11 billion combination with Chord Energy
  • MidOcean Energy, an LNG company formed by EIG Partners, in its acquisition of all of SK Earthon’s interest in Peru LNG, which owns and operates a 4.45 Mtpa LNG project located in Peru
  • CenterPoint Energy in its US$850 million sale of business units to PowerTeam Services 
  • Ara Partners in its acquisition of Vacuumschmelze, a leading infrastructure producer of advanced magnetic materials and the largest producer of rare earth permanent magnets in the Western Hemisphere, from Apollo
  • Greenbelt Capital Partners in its acquisition of Saber Power, a fully integrated substation and medium-to-high-voltage infrastructure services platform, from Oaktree
  • Midstates Petroleum Company in its US$729 million merger of equals with Amplify Energy 
  • Pembina Pipeline Corporation in its US$4.35 billion acquisition of Kinder Morgan Canada 
  • FMC Technologies in its US$13 billion merger of equals with Technip via the EU cross-border merger regime 
  • Energy Transfer in its US$5.1 billion acquisition of SemGroup
  • EQM Midstream Partners in its US$1.8 billion merger with Equitrans Midstream Corporation 
  • Akebia Therapeutics in its US$575 million merger of equals with Keryx Biopharmaceuticals
  • Rice Energy in its US$2.7 billion acquisition of Vantage Energy and Vantage Energy II 
  • UGI in its US$2.4 billion acquisition of 74% stake in AmeriGas 
  • Weatherford International in its US$8.6 billion chapter 11 restructuring 
  • Enduro Resource Partners in its US$350 million chapter 11 restructuring
  • Lone Star Resources in its US$535 million chapter 11 restructuring
  • Pacific Drilling in its US$1.2 billion chapter 11 restructuring

Bar Qualification

  • Texas

Education

  • JD, Cornell Law School, 2013
    magna cum laude, Editor, Cornell Law Review, Order of the Coif
  • BS in Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin

Practices

Industries