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Mark's principal areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, public financings, and private placements. His clients include public companies; venture capital funds; start-up companies; manufacturing companies; medical technology companies; oil field service companies; gas marketing, exploration and production companies; and investment banking firms. He has represented clients listed on the NYSE, ASE, and NASDAQ National Market.
Mark has extensive experience in public offerings of equity securities, and public and private debt securities. He also acts as general counsel for several public and private corporations. He has assisted in structuring and negotiating stock and asset acquisitions, and in negotiating bank financings. Mark also has extensive experience in merger and acquisition transactions, representing clients in transactions totaling over $6 billion in the last two years. He has represented clients in over 100 domestic and cross-border debt and equity offerings since 2004.
Mark has held numerous positions with the firm, and is currently Global Business Chair and a member of V&E’s Management Committee.
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- Southern Methodist University School of Law, J.D., 1981 (Editor, SMU Law Review; Phi Delta Phi)
- Texas A&M University, B.B.A. Accounting magna cum laude, 1978 (Beta Alpha Psi; Beta Gamma Sigma; Phi Eta Sigma; President, Sigma Chi; Province Balfour Award recipient)
- Admitted to practice: Texas, 1981
- Recognized in capital markets - equity offerings and M&A - national firms; large deals, Legal 500 U.S., 2008; capital markets - equity offerings - advice to issuers, 2009 and 2010
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in corporate and M&A law, 2003 - 2010
- Chambers Global:The World's Leading Lawyers for Business in corporate and M&A law, 2002 - 2003, 2005 - 2010
- Who's Who Legal: Texas in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and capital markets law, 2007 and 2008
- International Who’s Who of Oil & Gas Lawyers, 2009
- International Who's Who of Business Lawyers in oil & gas, 2009 and 2010
- The Best Lawyers in America® in corporate law, 2003 - 2011; corporate governance and compliance law, 2008 - 2011; mergers and acquisitions law, 2008 - 2011
- "Go-To Lawyer" in corporate law, Texas Lawyer
- "Top 100 Houston Region Super Lawyer," Texas Monthly
- "Texas Super Lawyer," Texas Monthly, 2003 - 2009
- President: Houston Bar Association
- Fellow: Houston Bar Foundation; Texas Bar Foundation
- Member: American, Texas, and Houston Bar Associations; Vice Chairman, Parade Committee, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Board of Trustees and Executive Committee Member, Houston Museum of Natural Science; City of Houston's READ Commission; Leadership Houston, Class VIII
- Past President: Houston Young Lawyers Association
- Past Director: Texas Young Lawyers Association
- Chair: Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program; Past Chair: Houston Bar Foundation, Houston Lawyer Referral Service; Professionalism Committee, Hunger Relief Committee, and Local Affiliates Committee, Texas Young Lawyers Association; Houston Young Lawyers Foundation
- Past Vice Chair: Center for Hearing and Speech
- Lecturer at numerous continuing legal education seminars
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