Mark

A.  Kopidlansky

Shareholder
500 N. Akard Street, Suite 4000
Dallas, TX 75201-6605

Overview

Mark has extensive experience assisting principals and other participants in a variety of sophisticated corporate, securities and business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions involving privately-held and publicly-traded companies, with a focus on high-end, middle market clients and transactions.

His representation of middle market clients consists of counseling clients in general corporate and commercial matters including with respect to joint venture and partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, executive and employee stock option plans and compensation packages, consulting agreements, severance agreements, distribution agreements, covenants not to compete and confidentiality agreements, and license agreements.

Mark also has significant experience in capital market and capital raising transactions, including representing issuers in public and private equity and debt financing and refinancing transactions (including initial public offerings and other registered offerings, private placements and venture capital financings). His experience includes counseling clients with respect to corporate governance, disclosure and other securities law compliance matters (including compliance with SEC reporting and disclosure requirements).

Mark’s clients appreciate his responsiveness, as well as his focus on putting his clients’ interests and goals first. Some of his most notable experience includes serving as lead counsel on two award-winning transactions - the D CEO and Association for Corporate Growth 2016 “Midsize Deal of the Year” ($25 MM to $149 MM) and the M&A Advisor's 2015 “Energy Deal of the Year” (up to $100 MM).

Education

Admission

Achievements

  • Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent®, Peer Review Rated™
  • Memberships

    • Dallas Bar Association, Mergers and Acquisitions Section
    • State Bar of Texas, Corporate Counsel Section

Overview

Mark has extensive experience assisting principals and other participants in a variety of sophisticated corporate, securities and business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions involving privately-held and publicly-traded companies, with a focus on high-end, middle market clients and transactions.

His representation of middle market clients consists of counseling clients in general corporate and commercial matters including with respect to joint venture and partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, executive and employee stock option plans and compensation packages, consulting agreements, severance agreements, distribution agreements, covenants not to compete and confidentiality agreements, and license agreements.

Mark also has significant experience in capital market and capital raising transactions, including representing issuers in public and private equity and debt financing and refinancing transactions (including initial public offerings and other registered offerings, private placements and venture capital financings). His experience includes counseling clients with respect to corporate governance, disclosure and other securities law compliance matters (including compliance with SEC reporting and disclosure requirements).

Mark’s clients appreciate his responsiveness, as well as his focus on putting his clients’ interests and goals first. Some of his most notable experience includes serving as lead counsel on two award-winning transactions - the D CEO and Association for Corporate Growth 2016 “Midsize Deal of the Year” ($25 MM to $149 MM) and the M&A Advisor's 2015 “Energy Deal of the Year” (up to $100 MM).

Experience

  • 2016 Midsize Deal of the Year

    2016 Mergers & Acquisitions Awards hosted by D CEO and the Association for Corporate Growth named the Texas Direct Auto/Vroom, Inc. acquisition as the 2016 "Midsize

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  • 2015 Energy Deal of the Year

    Represented a manufacturer of wellhead products in its sale to a diversified, global private equity fund. The deal won M&A Advisor's 2015 “Energy Deal of the Year" (up

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  • Child Care Business Disposition

    Represented the selling shareholders in the sale of a Dallas, Texas-based provider of child care services to a publicly-held child care company that is one of the leading

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