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.