A partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, Martin D. Mann is a member of the firm's Private Equity & Venture Capital and Transactional & Securities Practices, and the Emerging Technologies and Food Industry Teams. His practice focuses on acquisitions and financings for public and private companies and venture capital investments. Mr. Mann advises technology companies on a wide range of legal and business issues. He works both with multinational strategic purchasers and management groups involved in leveraged acquisitions. He also structures and organizes private equity funds and other private investment vehicles.
Mr. Mann has been involved in acquisition transactions involving medical devices, pharmaceutical development, and other healthcare products and services, as well as aerospace, electronics, industrial equipment, consumer products, and a variety of service industries. These transactions range in size from quite modest to hundreds of millions of dollars.
In assisting clients in acquisition transactions, Mr. Mann advises on structure, assists in arranging financing, negotiates transaction documentation and counsels on securities and other regulatory compliance requirements.
Mr. Mann is admitted to practice in Wisconsin, New York, California and Massachusetts. He received his J.D. in 1982 from Stanford University and his B.S. in economics, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1979. Prior to joining Foley, he worked as an investment banker with Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York.
Mr. Mann has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and in 2010, the Legal 500 recognized his work in the area of mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Mann has lectured on issues regarding acquisitions and raising capital and has published both legal and business articles on those subjects.