ArentFox Schiff

Finance, Real Estate

Partner

Mark serves primarily as special counsel to institutional investors including insurance companies, finance companies and banks in a wide range of privately placed and Rule 144A financing transactions, including:

Domestic and cross-border leveraged and synthetic leasing of aircraft, industrial equipment, railroad rolling stock, real estate and vessels Project, stadium and facility financings Secured and unsecured public utility and energy financings Credit-tenant loans Portfolio securitization Other secured and unsecured debt financings Workouts and restructurings

Mark also has represented a number of corporations in their private and public debt financings.

American College of Investment Counsel, Board of Trustees (2007-2010)

University of Illinois College of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1988

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geis College of Business, BS, high honors, 1985

Publications

“Leveraged Leasing From a Lender’s Viewpoint,” (co-author) in Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing, 5th ed., The Practising Law Institute (1999)

Presentations

“Special Considerations for Investments in REITs,” (moderator) American College of Investment Council 2017 Fall Annual Meeting and Education Conference, New York, N.Y. (Oct. 20, 2017) “Utility Financings,” (moderator) American College of Investment Counsel 2010 Annual Spring Investment Forum, Chicago, Ill.

Mark has also spoken at client in-house seminars on legal and documentation issues arising in structured financings.