Mark's diverse experience spanning over 30 years includes all areas of U.S. and cross-border financial restructuring, reorganization and bankruptcy, involving the representation of debtors, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors and official committees, and purchasers of troubled companies and their assets, both in and out of bankruptcy court. Mark was inducted as a Fellow in the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy in 1998, and currently serves as its Vice President. Mark has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1993, and is also listed in both The Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers and The K&A Restructuring Register of America's Top 100 Restructuring Professionals. Areas of Concentration · Financial restructurings · Business reorganizations · Distressed company acquisitions · Creditors/debtors rights Significant Representations · Representation of BankUnited Financial Corporation and affiliates in Chapter 11 cases and related litigation. (S.D.Fla.) · Representation of B.V.I. Liquidator in Bozel, S.A. Chapter 11 reorganization. (S.D.N.Y.) · Representation of DIP Lender in Sheldon Good Associates. (S.D.N.Y.) · Representation of Revolving Lenders in Fontainebleau Las Vegas. (S.D.Fla.) · Representation of Equity One in Winn Dixie Stores Chapter 11 cases (M.D.Fla.) · Representation of Fine Air Services Corp., an international air cargo operator, and its affiliates in $275 million Chapter 11 reorganization. (S.D.Fla.) · Representation of General Development Corporation and affiliates as debtors in Chapter 11 reorganization of public company with 330,000 creditors and $4 billion in claims. (S.D.Fla.) · Representation of Chapter 7 Trustee for Southeast Banking Corporation, returning 119% dividend to creditors from proceeds of litigation settlements with Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and liquidation of other assets. (S.D.Fla.) · Representation of Radice Corporation and affiliates as debtors in Chapter 11 reorganization of $400 million, NYSE-listed real estate development company with multiple subsidiaries. (S.D.Fla.) · Representation of Styling Technology Corporation and affiliates as debtors in Chapter 11 proceedings (D. Arizona). · Representation of Gerald Stevens, Inc., a nationwide flower retailer, in Chapter 11 proceedings. (S.D.Fla.) · Representation of Burt Reynolds and Burt Reynolds Productions as debtors in Chapter 11 reorganizations. (S.D.Fla.) · Representation of the CIT Corporation as secured creditor in Chapter 11 reorganization of Mulberry Phosphates, Inc. (M.D. Fla.) · Representation of Shearson Lehman Hutton as creditor in Chapter 11 reorganization of Koger Properties, Inc. (M.D. Fla.) · Representation of The Bank of New York as Indenture Trustee in Chapter 11 case of JumboSports, Inc. (M.D. Fla.) · Representation of Cobb Partners in acquisition of assets from Pan Am bankruptcy (S.D.N.Y.). · Representation of BayView Financial as largest secured creditor in Chapter 11 reorganization of Consolidated Freightways (C.D. California). Professional & Community Involvement · Board of Directors, Camillus House · Board of Directors, American College of Bankruptcy, 2007-2009 · American College of Bankruptcy
- Fellow 1998-present
- Vice President 2010-2012
- Director 2007-2010
- Board of Regents 2003-2007 · Past President, Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida · Member, American Bar Association · United Way of Miami-Dade County · Past Director, Zoological Society of Florida · Founding Chair and Master of Ceremonies, Leukemia Society of America Annual Barristers' Bash Awards & Recognition · Listed, Chambers & Partners USA Guide, an annual listing of the leading business lawyers and law firms in the world (every edition), 2003-2011 · Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, 1993-2012 · Listed, Who's Who Legal - The International Who's Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers, 2011 · Listed, one of the Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America, Lawdragon.com, 2010 · Listed, Hall of Fame Legal Elite, Florida Trend magazine, 2009 and 2010 · Listed, Legal Elite, Florida Trend magazine, 2004-2007, 2011 · Selected, Super Lawyers magazine, 2006-2011
- Selected, one of the Top 100 Florida Super Lawyers in Miami, 2010 and 2011 · Listed, Legal 500 US, 2009 and 2011 · Recommended, Restructuring and Insolvency section, PLC Which Lawyer Guide, 2008 and 2009 · Listed, America's Top 100, The K&A Restructuring Register · Listed, one of "South Florida's Top Lawyers," South Florida Legal Guide · Rated, AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5 Articles, Publications, & Lectures Articles · Co-Author, "Chapter 15: The US Cross-border Insolvency Law," PLC Cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook, Practical Law Company, 2007/2008 · Co-Author, "Reforming Latin American Insolvency Law," PLC Cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook, Practical Law Company, 2006/2007 · Quoted, "Bankruptcy Lawyers Fear the Stalking-Horse Bidding System in Wilmington, Del., is on the Ropes," The Daily Deal, February 12, 2004 · Co-author, "Saybrook Manufacturing: The Death of Cross Collateralization and the Mootness Doctrine," Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, September 1992 · Contributing Author, Norton Bankruptcy Law Treatise Lectures · Panelist, "Hurry Up and Wait: New Strategies and Potential Roadblocks in Pre-packaged Bankruptcies," Turnaround Management Association Convention, Orlando, October 2010 · Panelist, "It's A Small World After All: Cross Border Insolvency and Chapter 15," AIRA Bankruptcy & Restructuring Conference, Orlando, June 2009 · Panelist, "Negotiating Out - A Turnaround Lesson," Harvard Business School Turnaround Symposium, April 2007 · Panelist, "Increasing Diversity of Stakeholders," INSOL Annual Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2007 · Panelist, "Hot Topics," American College of Bankruptcy, Washington, D.C., March 2004 · Panelist, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Privilege and Confidentiality in Complex Chapter 11 Cases," National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, San Diego, October 2003 · Panelist, "Multijurisdictional Bankruptcy Practice and the Interface with State Ethics Laws," Annual Meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute, April 2002 Speeches · Speaker, "Prepackaged Insolvencies Under U.K. Law," INSOL Mexico City Seminar, April 2010 · Speaker and panelist, "The Evolution of Bank Insolvencies," ABI Caribbean Insolvency Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, February 2010 · Speaker, "Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code: Cross-Border Restructurings and Insolvencies," NYSBA International Section Seasonal Meeting, Singapore, October 2009 · Speaker, "United States Bankruptcy Law: Chapter 11 Reorganizations," FIDE Insolvency Conference, Madrid, Spain, October 2009 · Speaker, "Sale and Assignment of Assets Under U.S. Bankruptcy Law," INSOL Rio de Janeiro Seminar, April 2009 · Speaker, Restructuring and Investing Conference, Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, Shanghai, China, October 21-24, 2007 · Speaker, "Tracing and Recovering Assets Across Borders," INSOL New York Seminar, June 2007 · Speaker, "Recent Changes in U.S. Bankruptcy Law," ALI-ABA Lecture Series and Clinics on American Law and Practice, Beijing and Shanghai, China, June 2006 · Speaker, "The United States Court System and Bankruptcy Jurisdiction," and "United States Bankruptcy Law - The Chapter 11 Reorganization Process," ALI-ABA Conference on U.S. Commercial Law & Litigation, Shanghai, China, June 2005 · Speaker and Moderator, "Offshore Incorporation - Which Way is the Tide Heading?" INSOL Conference of the Americas, Las Vegas, September 2003 · Speaker and Moderator, "Handling a Bankruptcy With Pending Criminal Investigations and Proceedings," ABI Winter Leadership Conference, Palm Springs, December 2003 · Speaker and Moderator, "Issues in Cross-Border Turnarounds: Dorothy, We're Not Just in Kansas Anymore!" Turnaround Management Association Annual Conference, 2001 · Speaker, "Reorganizing in a Fishbowl: Representing Debtors in High Profile Chapter 11 Cases," National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, San Francisco, October 1999 · Speaker, "Chapter 11: What's Hot," American Bankruptcy Institute Annual Spring Meeting, 1999 Miscellaneous · Program Chair, Views from the Bench: Valuation Issues, VALCON 2008, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida · Roundtable Participant, "Latin America Restructuring," Americas Restructuring & Insolvency Review, Financier Worldwide, 2007 |