Mark E. Betzen
Partner
Dallas
Tel: 1.214.969.3704
Fax: 1.214.969.5100
Email:
mbetzen@jonesday.com
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Mark Betzen has more than 20 years of experience in assisting principals and other participants in a wide variety of sophisticated corporate, securities, and business transactions. He has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions involving publicly traded and closely held companies (including tender offers, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and restructurings) and in equity and debt financing transactions (including initial public offerings and other registered offerings, private placements, Rule 144A offerings, exchange offers, and issuer tender offers). He also has extensive experience in counseling clients with respect to corporate governance, fiduciary duties, and disclosure and other securities law compliance matters.
Clients that Mark has represented in recent years include Albertson's, Alon USA Energy, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse, Dow Corning Corporation, Hollywood Entertainment Corporation, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, Macy's, Inc., Micron Technology, Piper Jaffray & Co., Quicksilver Resources, Sterling Software, and Washington Group International as well as various directors and boards and committees of directors of public and private companies.
Mark coheads the Mergers & Acquisitions practice for the Firm's Texas Region and is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers. Mark is also a member of the Firm's Sarbanes-Oxley Act task force and a member of the editorial board of The Corporate Compliance & Regulatory Newsletter.
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Texas
Education
Texas Tech University (National Merit Scholar; B.B.A. in Accounting 1981); The University of Texas at Austin (J.D. with honors 1984)