Joseph B. Darby III is a shareholder in the Boston office of Greenberg Traurig LLP, and has been admitted to the practice of law in Massachusetts since 1979. He is a tax attorney who focuses his practice on business and transactional tax law, and he advises a wide variety of corporations and high net-worth individuals on tax and legal aspects of business and real estate activities, and represents these taxpayers before federal and state taxing authorities.
Mr. Darby is the author of Practical Guide to Mergers, Acquisitions and Business Sales, published in 2006 by CCH (formerly Commerce Clearing House), a Wolters Kluwers business, and has extensive experience in the areas of structuring mergers, acquisitions, business sales, and related business transactions. He teaches graduate-level courses on the buying and selling of businesses at Boston University School of Law in the Graduate Tax Program and at Bentley College in the Masters of Taxation Program.
Mr. Darby has represented and advised numerous public and private companies, as well as private equity and venture capital firms, on investment and acquisition transactions and on the disposition of business interests, in transactions ranging from early-stage investments in high-tech start ups to acquisitions and sales of mature, late-stage companies and publicly traded corporations.
A second core area of concentration is the taxation of intellectual property, including tax aspects related to the development, licensing and exploitation of intellectual property rights, the migration of valuable intellectual property to offshore jurisdictions, and the tax-efficient sale of intellectual property rights.
Mr. Darby also works with high-net-worth individuals and business owners to organize their personal income tax and estate planning affairs in order to maximize wealth preservation and minimize tax on transfers to family members, charities and other recipients. This is accomplished through the use of the latest sophisticated estate planning strategies, including family limited partnerships, installment sales to defective grantor trusts, the formation of family charitable foundations, and other similar techniques.
Mr. Darby has been the recipient of numerous journalism and writing awards, and has authored two books and more than 1,000 articles published in such diverse publications as The Tax Lawyer, Worth Magazine, Venture Capital Magazine, Banker & Tradesman, Mass High Tech, Hemispheres Magazine, Contract Professional, Trusts & Estates Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Business Journal and The Boston Phoenix. Mr. Darby is a frequent contributor to the World Trade Executive family of publications, including Practical International Tax Strategies, Practical European Tax Strategies, and Practical US Tax Strategies, and is a member of the editorial and advisory board of World Trade Executive.
Mr. Darby has served as a member of the Board of Assessors for the Town of Watertown since 1993, and has served as pro bono legal and tax counsel to a variety of Boston-area charitable organizations, including the Boston Police Foundation.
Areas of Concentration
· Taxation
· Corporate Transactions
· Intellectual Property
Professional & Community Involvement
· President and Member of the Board of Trustees, Boston Police Foundation
· Assessor, Board of Assessors, Watertown, Massachusetts
· Lecturer at Law, Boston University School of Law, Graduate Tax Program
· Adjunct Professor, Masters in Taxation Program, Bentley University
· Member of the Advisory Board of World Trade Executive for the following three periodicals:
- Practical U.S./International Tax Strategies;
- Practical European Tax Strategies; and
- Practical U.S./Domestic Tax Strategies
· Special Corporate and Business Tax Advisor to the Education Committee of the Massachusetts Association of Public Accountants
Awards & Recognition
· Listed, Best Lawyers in America, 2010
· "Tax Writer of the Year - 2007", World Trade Executive, Inc., December 2007
· Listed, "Super Lawyers of Massachusetts," 2004-2007
· Rated, AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5
· New England Press Association, First Place for Sports Column writing, 1991
· Special Recognition Award from the Armenian Museum and Library of America, 1988
Articles, Publications, & Lectures
Articles
· Mr. Darby has written more than 500 articles for such diverse publications, as The Tax Lawyer, Trusts & Estates Magazine, Worth Magazine, Banker & Tradesman, Contract Professional, CFO Magazine, Hemispheres Magazine, World Trade Executive, The Boston Business Journal, The Boston Phoenix and The Boston Globe. See the links, below, for his recent articles.
Books
· Practical Guide to Mergers, Acquisitions and Business Sales, a 512-page book published by CCH (formerly Commerce Clearing House), a Wolters Kluwers Business, 2006. See the link below for further information.
· Taxation of Intellectual Property (to be published in 2008)