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Mark Semotiuk
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Corporate Partner
Career
Mark Semotiuk is a real estate M&A attorney that represents private equity funds and REITs in corporate real estate matters across asset classes.
Mr. Semotiuk leverages Latham’s robust global platform and trusted client relationships to consummate high-value real estate transactions, including:
- Mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions
- Secondaries and recapitalizations
- Joint ventures, co-investments and preferred equity placements
- Property and corporate financings
- REIT and private equity fund structuring
Mr. Semotiuk is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Before his legal career he worked in real estate finance, which allows him to bridge each transaction’s legal requirements with his clients’ business imperatives.
Education
Master of Real Estate Development, University of Southern California
BA in Business Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA Institute
JD, Fordham University
LLM in European Union Law, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
(Rising stars)Headed by Michelle Kelban and Michael Haas in New York together with Chicago based Rachel Bates, Latham & Watkins LLP‘ ‘highly experienced, smart, up-to-date on industry practices and very responsive‘ nationwide real estate group maintains a strong reputation in real estate finance, both borrower and lender-side, REIT transactions, real estate focused private equity transactions and development work. Also in Chicago, Gary E. Axelrod continues to advise private equity sponsors and funds, REITs and institutional investors on major developments across the US. Working with Bates, he recently advised Highgate Capital Investments on its acquisition, along with Aurora Health Network, of the Wellness Infrastructure business of DigitalBridge Group, a digital infrastructure REIT in a transaction valued at $3.2bn. ‘Experienced and poised beyond his years‘ New York’s Justin Elliott and Mark Semotiuk maintain a strong reputation in the New York market for single asset and portfolio financings, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings. In Century City, Meghan Cocci ‘is a superstar in the hotel industry‘.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)