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Mr Mark Thierfelder

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+1 212 698 3804 mark.thierfelder@dechert.com

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Partner

Career

Mark E. Thierfelder, firm co-chair, former chair of the firm’s corporate and securities group, and chair of the global private equity practice, concentrates his practice on private equity transactions and domestic and international mergers and acquisitions throughout North America, Europe and Asia. In particular, Mr. Thierfelder represents leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a full range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, leveraged financings, restructurings, and reorganizations. In addition, he negotiates, structures, and executes corporate transactions on behalf of strategic buyers and sellers, and has significant experience representing banks and other institutional lenders in leveraged financings and restructurings.

Over the course of his 30 year career, Mr. Thierfelder has acted on some of the most significant transactions in the market. In fact, he advised on the second largest private equity buyout since the Financial Crisis, according to Mergermarket, and played a lead role advising on the largest private equity exit in 2019, according to Bloomberg. He also advised on two of the largest private equity-backed acquisitions globally in the past three years at the time of their announcements, according to Refinitiv, including his representation of GIC on the acquisition by a Blackstone-led consortium of a majority stake in Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business at an overall valuation of US$20 billion, and his representation of SK hynix as part of a consortium on the US$18 billion acquisition of Toshiba Corporation’s NAND flash memory and solid-state drive business.

Memberships

  • Trustee, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
  • Member, Advisory Board, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Trustee, Chair of Institutional Advancement, Executive Committee, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
  • Co-Chair, Lawrenceville Parents Fund, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
  • Former Treasurer, Chair of Finance Committee, Executive Committee, Princeton Day School, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Former Member, Advisory Committee, The Deal
  • Former Member, Corporation Law Committee, New York City Bar Association
  • Former Member, Private Equity Editorial Advisory Board, Law360

Education

  • Rutgers School of Law – Newark, J.D., 1992, with Honors, Order of the Coif
  • Duke University, B.A., 1986

Lawyer Rankings

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)

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Mark Thierfelder – Dechert LLP

Dechert LLP has a longstanding and well-established presence in the private equity market, representing a diverse range of PE and private investment firms at every phase of the investment life-cycle. A hallmark of the firm’s practice is its cross-border capabilities, utilizing offices in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East to advise on complex inbound and outbound transactions. Mark Thierfelder is global chair of the firm’s PE practice and recently led in a significant deal in the healthcare and TMT space, advising GIC in connection with its $17bn acquisition of Athenahealth. Jonathan Kim continues to grow his reputation for high-value M&A and PE buyouts, retaining clients such as Centre Partners, Further Global and PPC. Derek M Winokur and Sarah Kupferman regularly represent an impressive roster of strategic buyers, sellers and sponsors, including the likes of One Equity, Bruckmann and Rosser. Pennsylvania-based Kenneth E. Young brings a broad industry focus to the table, covering such areas as technology, energy and banking. Unless specified, attorneys are based in New York.

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)

As its global footprint continues to expand, the strength of Dechert LLP‘s cross-border capabilities is a hallmark of the corporate and M&A practice, which is trusted by many financial services companies, asset managers and private equity funds. The practice showcases deep expertise advising on corporate deals in the healthcare and life sciences segments, and has recently handled a variety of deals in the industrial sector. Mark Thierfelder – the chair of the global private equity, corporate and securities practices – has led on hundreds of announced and closed transactions spanning strategic M&A and private equity buyouts. He sits in the New York office, where Jonathan Kim is another key contact for private equity funds. New York-based Derek M Winokur heads up the private equity group alongside Kenneth E. Young in Pennsylvania, the latter of whom is also sought out by portfolio companies from the technology, financial services, energy and healthcare sectors.

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