Joseph E. Hunt IV

An experienced member of the Firm’s Corporate and Tax Practice Groups, Joe advises clients throughout all stages of the business life cycle from initial concept and entity formation through ultimate exit, providing counsel to privately held startup, emerging growth, and middle-market companies across multiple industries, with particular focus on technology and life sciences companies. Joe’s transactional practice focuses on guiding his clients through a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, venture capital financings, and complex tax structuring matters.

Joe’s experience includes a strong background in matters of U.S. federal taxation, which allows him to advise his clients on multifaceted tax issues arising in the course of mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, structuring equity compensation for service providers in corporations and partnerships, and corporate governance.

Joe maintains a robust pro bono practice advising charitable and non-profit organizations with respect to entity formation and corporate governance, and routinely guides clients through the process of applying for tax-exempt status with the IRS. For more than a decade Joe has partnered with Low Income Taxpayer Clinics to assist low-income taxpayers resolve tax disputes with the IRS.

Prior to joining Morse, Joe worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Transaction Services group of a Big Four advisory firm based in Boston, where he focused on advising private equity and multinational corporate clients throughout the merger and acquisition life cycle with experience in both buy-side and sell-side transactions with a particular emphasis on software, life sciences, and technology industries.

Outside of the office, Joe is an adjunct faculty member at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches “Federal Income Taxation II” in the Fall and “Life Cycle of a Business Venture” in the Spring. While a student at Boston University School of Law, Joe was honored at graduation with the Ernest M. Haddad Award which is presented annually to the graduating student in the Graduate Tax Program who best exhibits overall capability, taking into consideration academic achievement, character, and potential to serve the public interest.