Mr Mark Thierfelder > Dechert LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Mark Thierfelder
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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+)
(Leading lawyers)Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)