Joe Basile is a nationally recognized mergers and acquisitions (M&A) expert with over forty-five years of experience in M&A dealmaking and corporate governance as an M&A attorney, mediator, and law school professor. Mr. Basile’s experience spans many industries, including aerospace, chemicals, consumer goods, entertainment, finance, life sciences, logistics, manufacturing, media, natural resources, paper and packaging, technology, and telecommunications.
As a consulting and testifying expert, Mr. Basile has been retained to address customs and practices in numerous matters, including cases filed in the Delaware Chancery Court, U.S. district courts, state courts, arbitrations, and mediations on issues such as group restructurings, de-merger transactions, escrows, earnouts, post-closing indemnification, due diligence, and standard of care.
Decades of experience as an M&A attorney
Mr. Basile has served as a partner in the M&A practices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Foley Hoag; and Bingham McCutchen; and as a senior advisor at Hogan Lovells. He continues to serve as a consultant to law firms, organizations, and individuals regarding M&A, complex corporate transactions, and governance matters.
Mr. Basile is also a founder and managing director of Pari Passu M&A Mediation, an independent specialist practice that focuses on mediating disputes arising from mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and control and minority investment transactions.
Through his decades of experience as a practicing M&A attorney, consultant, and mediator, Mr. Basile has developed extensive firsthand knowledge of the industry customs and practices, deal processes, and structures that are central to M&A, financing, restructuring, and other sophisticated corporate transactions.
Wide-ranging expertise in domestic and international transactions
Mr. Basile has worked on complex domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, control and minority investments, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and financial restructurings in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He has represented both buy-side and sell-side clients, with significant experience in negotiated, hostile, and distressed M&A transactions and financial restructurings.
Recognized author, speaker, and educator on M&A, corporate governance, and related topics
A thought leader on M&A and governance subjects, Mr. Basile publishes articles in professional journals and law reviews. He has frequently presented to organizations such as the American Bar Association (ABA), the International Bar Association, the NYSE Governance Services, and the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Mr. Basile is also a lecturer at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches courses on M&A, corporate finance, and negotiating and structuring cross-border business collaborations.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Basile was a full-time law professor at Western New England University School of Law, where he was awarded tenure and recognized for excellence in teaching. He has also taught corporate finance and M&A courses at the University of Connecticut School of Law.