Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Mark Hanson heads the Capital Markets practice in the Atlanta Office. His practice primarily involves representing publicly and privately held companies in the United States and overseas, as well as investment banks, in complex financings and other corporate transactions. He has significant experience in representing and counseling issuers in public offerings, as well as in mergers, acquisitions, debt restructurings and recapitalizations, tender offers for debt and equity securities, and other securities-based transactions. He is also experienced in advising boards of directors with respect to corporate governance, disclosure and fiduciary duty issues, and in representing underwriters in public offerings of securities. Mark's international finance experience includes the representation of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers and financial intermediaries in ADR transactions, as well as Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings. Mark represents both emerging growth and mature companies that are involved in all facets of the media and entertainment, broadcasting, telecommunications, and information technology industries.

Corporate clients that Mark has represented include Cumulus Media, Eastman Chemical Company, Flowers Foods, Hagemeyer N.V., International Textile Group, Nextel Communications, WL Ross & Co., and World Kitchen. Among the investment banks he has represented are Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase (formerly Chase H&Q), and Morgan Stanley.

Mark is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the District of Columbia Bar. He is active in civic affairs and has served on the board of directors of Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Areas of Practice

• Capital Markets
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Corporate Compliance Programs

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of Cumulus Media
• Acquisition of IMPAC
• Buyout
• Buyout
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Exchange Offer
• Global Offering by Collins & Aikman Group, Inc.
• Merger of ITG and SCI
• PIPE Transaction
• PIPE Transaction
• Private Placement of Senior Notes
• Public Offering of Class A Common Stock
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Subordinated Debentures
• Public Offerings of Notes
• Sale of Genencor
• Self Tender Offer
• Shelf Registration of Class A Common Stock
• Stock Repurchase
• Tender Offer
• Tender Offer of Senior Subordinated Notes
• Universal Shelf Registration

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Georgia

Education

• Northwestern University

Published Works

• SEC Maintains Status Quo in Shareholder Access, 2007
• SEC Releases Shareholder Access Proposals, 2007

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Atlanta, GA 30309-3053

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