Chris Curtin
Managing Partner
Chris leads SummitPat’s valuation and exit planning practice. He works with lower middle market companies, generally $10 million to $200 million in revenue, and over the past ten years has appraised and helped transact more than $500 million in enterprise value.
His work concentrates in businesses where the value sits in contracts, credentials and recurring service relationships rather than in equipment or inventory — trade and specialty contractors, building maintenance and support services, architecture, design and engineering practices, federal government contractors, and technology and intellectual property.
He works directly with owners on what a business is worth, what is depressing that number, and what is realistically fixable before a transaction.
Education University of Virginia, BS Finance and Management
John Curtin
General Partner
John has spent more than three decades helping individuals and companies sell and license technology and patents, negotiating dozens of licenses and sales across telecommunications, electronics and imaging, measuring instruments, databases and software, and military tools.
He authored an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court in Markman v. Westview Instruments, the leading case on patent claim construction. A patent he obtained for Bell Laboratories was named by MIT’s Technology Review as one of the five most important patents of 2004. In 2006 he was appointed to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Nanotechnology Manufacturing Advisory Committee.
His litigation experience is central to clients in adverse business relationships — both in counseling them on how to avoid litigation and, where it is unavoidable, how to conduct it so that it maximizes the value of the underlying technology.
Education Seton Hall University, JD, 1988 · Stevens Institute of Technology, BE Electrical Engineering, 1981
Bar admissions Virginia · New Jersey · District of Columbia · US Patent & Trademark Office, Reg. No. 37,602