Choate, Hall & Stewart

Private Equity and M&A

Partner

Mark DeFeo, Partner in Choate’s Private Equity and M&A Group, helps private equity funds to successfully complete buy-outs, growth equity financings, exits, and other significant transactions. Mark is regarded as a trusted advisor to clients throughout the lifecycle of their investments, adept at handling the acquisition or equity investment on the front-end of a transaction and the exit on the back-end. Mark provides further value to clients by helping in the advancement of the business as it grows through add-on acquisitions, equity financings, and other significant inflection points, while also serving as outside general counsel for the portfolio companies.

Mark also counsels portfolio companies, search funds and family offices on complex M&A and general corporate matters.

Mark has worked on transactions in a variety of sectors, including software, tech-enabled services, cybersecurity, healthcare IT, financial services, consulting, and business services.

Boston College Law School, JD (2009) magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Note Editor, Boston College Law Review

Boston College, BA (2006) summa cum laude