Ethan Mark Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn

Minneapolis, Mn

• SEC registered investment advisor engaged in international investments• Responsible for (i) all legal aspects of fund and account formation, (ii) coordinating the legal analysis of the firm's investments and jurisdictions, and (iii) advising the investment team • Manage external counsel in connection with evaluating and making investment decisions and oversee negotiation and documentation of trades• Transactional experience in multiple international markets related to debt restructurings, private lending, SPAC, and other private and public debt and equity investments• Coordinate tax analysis, structuring, and AML, OFAC, and sanctions analysis for investment team• Manage active litigation related to various investments• Structured and implemented new business lines and office expansion• Fund and account formation and ongoing maintenance (comingled funds, single investor fund, managed accounts, co-investments)• Handle employment, immigration and compensation matters

Minneapolis, Mn

Minneapolis, Mn

• Clients included closely held businesses, private equity/venture funds, family offices, public companies and individuals.• Regularly advised clients in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, investments, restructuring transactions, corporate governance, joint ventures, strategic agreements, and other general corporate matters, including serving as outside general counsel.Representative experience:• Several closely held and family businesses in their (i) sales to private equity groups, public companies and strategic buyers, (ii) succession planning transactions and (iii) owner dispute divestitures• Various private equity funds and their portfolio companies in multiple acquisitions and divestitures (including cross-border transactions) and general counsel matters• G&K Services, Inc., in several M&A and corporate finance transactions• Buyer in its $100 million acquisition of a local media company and related bolt-on acquisition• 100% ESOP-owned company in its $60 million sale to strategic buyer• Shareholders of a closely held business in their $60 million sale to an ESOP • Quadion in its sale to Norwest Equity Partners• Investors in the Minnesota MLS franchise• Secured financings for an East coast-based investment fund making loans to small businesses• Joint ventures for public and privately held companies in various industries• Pre-IPO and international financing transactions for a local hedge fund• Midwest Wireless in its sale to Alltel Wireless for $1.075 billion• St. Cloud Wireless in the $312.5 million sale of its Northern PCS operating subsidiary to Sprint-Nextel• Debt tender offer, Rule 144A offerings and Regulation D private placements of equity and debt securities aggregating over $900 million for both private and public companies• Multinational corporation, as local counsel, in its $3 billion takeover of a public company• Local sports franchise in its $100 million debt refinancing transaction

New York, Ny

J.D., Law, Cum Laude

B.A., Economics

Activities and Societies: Baseball Captain '99

Education record

Activities and Societies: Hockey and Baseball Captain