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Mark J. Mihanovic is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Mark heads our Firm's California corporate practice and serves as corporate liaison partner in the Firm's strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices based in Shanghai. His practice is primarily focused in the areas of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions involving companies in a broad range of industries, with a particular emphasis on technology, life science and health care companies. Mark has served as lead counsel on behalf of issuers and underwriters in numerous public offerings and private placements (including PIPEs and offerings under Rule 144A) of equity and debt securities. He has handled numerous stock and asset acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, proxy fights, ESOPs and joint ventures and has had primary oversight responsibility for the regional and worldwide acquisition programs of multiple clients. He 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. Mark has also advised publicly-traded companies and investment banks and other financial advisers with respect to a wide variety of securities law compliance matters. He has represented investment banks acting as financial adviser and delivering fairness opinions in the context of acquisitions and restructurings.
In addition, Mark has extensive experience representing lenders and borrowers in bank finance transactions, including acquisition financings, debt restructuring and "workout" transactions and letters of credit; in structuring, negotiating and documenting complex litigation settlements in which corporate and financial issues were predominant; and in handling general corporate matters.
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 a University of Michigan Law School mergers and acquisitions course.
Mark is admitted to the California and New York bars.
Education:
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1985
University of Michigan, A.B. (high honors), 1982 | 