Mark’s practice emphasizes corporate, securities, finance and general business law. He has extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, counseling companies in securities law compliance, structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, and advising clients in contractual, banking and finance matters. Mark has particular experience with oil and gas companies, oilfield service companies, pipeline companies and other energy infrastructure companies.

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Education
JD, University of Houston Law Center, cum laude, Houston Law Review, Chief Note and Comment Editor, 1988

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, 1985

• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Rules to Implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s Mine Safety Disclosure Requirements
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Enhanced Short-Term Borrowing Disclosure Rules
• AK Migration: Oil and Gas Companies Should Expect Increased SEC Scrutiny of Operations and Reserves
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Disclosure Rules for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers
• AK Migration: SEC Replaces Credit Ratings with New Wide Market Following Test for Shelf Registration Statement Eligibility
• AK Migration: DC Circuit Panel Vacates Proxy Access Rule
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Rules for Compensation Committees and Compensation Advisers
• AK Migration: SEC Issues Interpretive Guidance Regarding Liquidity and Capital Resources Disclosures
• AK Migration: Recent Ruling Allows a Shareholder Lawsuit to Proceed After a Negative Say-on-Pay Vote: Quirk or Harbinger?
• AK Migration: PCAOB Considers Changes to Standards for Auditors’ Reports on Audited Financial Statements
• AK Migration: DC Circuit’s Proxy Access Decision to Stand, but SEC to Allow “Private Ordering” of Proxy Access
• AK Migration: PCAOB Floats Possibility of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation