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Mark Jones is a seasoned corporate attorney whose in-house corporate experience provides him a perspective about client's expectations and needs that make him very effective for his clients.
Mark represents public and private companies in the areas of:
- corporate securities, including public equity and debt financings;
- mergers and acquisitions;
- private placements;
- technology start-ups/private and venture capital financings;
- compliance programs/enterprise risk management.
Public Equity and Debt Offerings
Throughout his legal career, Mark has represented numerous issuers with their initial or secondary public offerings, as well as underwriters. He has been involved in over 100 public and private offerings of securities. Additionally, he assists clients, some of whom are Fortune 500 companies, in maintaining ongoing SEC compliance.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Mark has represented both acquirors and targets in a broad range of business combination transactions, including mergers, stock purchases, asset purchases and tender offers. His clients include companies within the energy, healthcare, banking and environmental industries. He has negotiated and closed over 85 business combination transactions. Additionally, he has counseled companies with respect to their preparation for hostile attempts by potential acquirors and the Board's duties related thereto, and numerous other corporate governance issues.
Private Placements
Mark has represented numerous companies, in raising capital in private placements or financings.
Technology Start-ups/Venture Capital
Mark has played a leading role in more than 20 start-ups, in areas including biotechnology, healthcare, medical devices, water, information technology and environmental technology. He was a member of management in two start-ups that grew dramatically in a relatively short period of time and were sold to major industry players.
Ethics and Compliance Programs
Mark has worked with corporations in establishing ethics and compliance programs which address the requirements under federal sentencing guidelines, and he has assisted with the management of such programs. He served on the risk management committee of a Fortune 500 company and advised several boards of directors on Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley issues and whistleblower cases.
Other Relevant Experience
Prior to joining the firm, Mark served as General Counsel at Argonne National Laboratory, which is operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Argonne is one of the nation's top national laboratories which now pursues a broad range of science and technology. While at Argonne, Mark led a team of up to 20 professionals in a complex legal and political environment. Originally, Argonne and its Dr. Enrico Fermi participated in the development of the atomic bomb used in World War II. Prior to Argonne, Mark was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for a Bechtel Enterprises venture, Managing Senior Counsel for Union Pacific Resources Group, Inc., a large independent E&P company, and an associate at Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. Representative Experience Mark had a lead role in the following transactions:
- An energy issuer in a $450 million 144A offering of high yield notes
- An energy issuer in a $300 million public offering of equity securities
- A banking issuer in a $60 million public offering of equity securities
- An energy issuer in a $5.6 billion initial public offering of equity securities
- An acquiror in the acquisition of $1.3 billion in oil and gas properties
- An acquiror in the acquisition of Canadian energy company for $3.6 billion
- A seller of a manufacturing company for $26 million
- An acquiror in the acquisition of two public bank holding companies for $35 milion and $20 million, respectively
- A borrower in the negotiation of an $85 million acquisition facility
- A borrower in the negotiation of a $2.7 billion credit facility
- Issuers in the establishment of numerous Equity and Debt Shelf Registrations, including a WKSI Shelf Registration Statement
- A start-up company client with its successful "seed" financing of $500,000 and "follow-on" of $1.5 million
- A water company in connection with some of the largest design-build-operate agreements in the water and waste water business
- A waste company in connection with numerous acquisitions of treatment, storage and disposal facilities throughout the United States
- A waste company in connection with the permitting of several “greenfields” and capacity expansions for existing facilities
- A waste company in connection with remediation of numerous contaminated sites, including CERCLA sites
- Received special recognition from the Environmental Protection Agency for his leadership in the remediation of a long-standing CERCLA site
- A transportation company in connection with the spin off of a large energy company, including the transition services agreements
- An energy company in connection with the creation of a public master limited partnership
- An energy company in connection with a $150 million forward gas sale
- A funeral and cemetery service company in connection with numerous acquisitions of cemeteries, funeral homes and service providers
- An energy company in connection with all of its derivative transactions, including the development of standardized forms and appendices
- A borrower in connection with a $900 Million revolving credit facility
- An energy company in connection with master service agreements
- A transportation company in connection with the two-step acquisition of a target for $4.1 Billion
- An energy company in connection with an unsolicited tender offer for a target for $6.2 Billion
- Public companies in connection with the development of contingency communication manual for the Board of Directors to be used in connection with unsolicited tender offers, proxy solicitations and other sensitive matters
- A technology transfer company in connection with over 30 licenses of intellectual property, ranging from patents to proprietary data
- A funeral and cemetery service provider in connection with the private placement of a series of preferred stock
- Received special recognition from the Department of Energy for his leadership with respect to cost savings and alternative dispute resolution efforts
News
Articles "Compliance Programs," SmartBusiness Houston (May 2008) Jones-Compliance Programs.pdf
"Avoid Being Tangled Up in Your Underwear - Negotiating the High Yield Indenture for an E&P Company" (2006) Events Conducted numerous continuing legal education and customer-focused seminars
Panelist/Advisor to MIT Enterprise Forum Venture Clinic, 2006-2008
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