Mark serves as lead counsel on behalf of issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements (including private investments in public equities (PIPEs)) of equity and debt securities. He handles stock and asset acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, proxy fights and joint ventures and has had primary oversight responsibility for the regional and worldwide acquisition programs of multiple clients. Mark represents early-stage companies in connection with formation and organizational issues and venture capital and other financings and has also represented investors in complex venture capital transactions involving equity and debt.

Mark has substantial experience advising corporate boards of directors and management regarding fiduciary duties (including in connection with potential change in control transactions and consideration of “poison pill” stockholders rights plans) and corporate governance issues. He assists publicly traded companies with their Securities and Exchange Commission filings and other securities compliance matters. He also advises investment banks on securities compliance issues and in acting as financial adviser and delivering fairness opinions in the context of acquisitions and restructurings.

Mark has lectured at various external and McDermott-sponsored programs on the topic of public offerings and on emerging company issues. He has also spoken on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate law-related topics in various client seminars and has served as guest lecturer for transaction-related courses at the University of Michigan Law School and Stanford Law School.

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• Represented Corindus Vascular Robotics, Inc. is an approximately $50 million underwritten public offering
• Represent Fowler Property Acquisitions (a San Francisco-based real estate company) in the formation and capitalization of new real estate investment funds (including real estate investment trusts (REITs)) and in the acquisitions on a Texas-based REIT
• Represented iSubscribed Inc. (a digital security company) in a multi-part transaction involving (i) the formation by iSubscribed and two equity investors of a buyer entity to effect a tender offer acquisition of Intersections, Inc. and (ii) the subsequent business combination of iSubscribed with the buyer entity and Intersections
• Represented Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in connection with a joint venture in China with Chinese conglomerate Fosun
• Represent surf- and snow-wear company O’Neill, Inc. in (i) the sale of its worldwide trademark portfolio and other assets to SISCO Textiles NV and (ii) other general transactional matters
• Represent Premier, Inc. in the following:
  • Its Up-C reorganization and approximately $900 million initial public offering
  • Its $120 million Company-Directed Offering by selling member-owner stockholders
  • Its $140 million Company-Directed Offering by selling member-owner stockholders
  • As general outside securities and corporate governance counsel
• Represented QuantumWise (a Denmark-based software company) in connection with its sale to Synopsys
• Represented Virttu Biologics Ltd. (a UK-based life sciences company) in its sale to Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc.

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