Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Mark Betzen has more than 20 years' experience advising business entities and corporate directors with respect to transactional matters involving publicly traded and closely held companies, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and restructurings. He also has extensive experience in equity, debt, and hybrid financing transactions, including initial public offerings and other registered offerings, private placements, Rule 144A offerings, exchange offers, and issuer tender offers. In addition, he regularly counsels clients on corporate governance, fiduciary duties, and disclosure and other securities law compliance matters. Mark co-heads the Mergers & Acquisitions practice for Jones Day's Texas region.

Clients that Mark has advised include Albertsons, Alon USA Energy, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse, Dell, Dow Corning, Hollywood Entertainment, J.C. Penney, Louisiana-Pacific, Macy's, Micron Technology, Piper Jaffray, Quicksilver Resources, Sterling Software, and Washington Group International, as well as directors, boards, and committees of directors of various public and private companies.

Mark is a member of the editorial board of The Corporate Compliance & Regulatory Newsletter.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Capital Markets
• Consumer Products & Retail

Representative Cases

• Acquisition by Investor Group
• Acquisition of ABT Building Products Corporation by tender offer and merger
• Acquisition of Active Voice Corporation
• Acquisition of Allegro Systems, Inc.
• Acquisition of Andiamo Systems, Inc.
• Acquisition of AuroraNetics, Inc.
• Acquisition of Broadway Stores
• Acquisition of Cayenne Software, Inc.
• Acquisition of Dave & Buster's
• Acquisition of Day International Corporation by tender offer and merger
• Acquisition of Eljer Industries
• Acquisition of ExiO Communications Corporation
• Acquisition of Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc.
• Acquisition of H&C Communications
• Acquisition of Hammerhead Networks, Inc.
• Acquisition of Hard Rock Cafe and Casino business by The Seminole Tribe of Florida
• Acquisition of Joseph Horne Co., Inc.
• Acquisition of Le Groupe Forex, Inc. by tender offer and merger
• Acquisition of Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
• Acquisition of Mystech Associates, Inc.
• Acquisition of Navarro Networks, Inc.
• Acquisition of New Bristol Farms, Inc.
• Acquisition of Paramount Petroleum
• Acquisition of Raytheon Engineers & Constructors
• Acquisition of Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.
• Acquisition of Synon Corporation
• Acquisition of Texas Instruments Software
• Acquisition of United Inns, Inc.
• Buyout of Canary Wharf Group
• Combination of United Inns, Inc. with Harvey Hotel Company
• Commercial Paper Programs
• Credit Facility
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering
• Joint Venture
• Joint Venture
• Joint Venture with Intel
• King Pharmaceuticals Merger
• Krotz Springs refinery acquisition
• Merger with R.H. Macy
• Merger with Washington Construction Group
• NextWave Telecom Bid
• Private equity investments in numerous technology companies
• Public offering of 12,000,000 shares of Common Stock of Sterling Commerce, Inc.
• Public Offering of Common Stock
• Public Offering of Convertible Subordinated Notes
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Subordinated Notes
• Public Offering of Senior Subordinated Notes
• Public Offering of Term Enhanced Remarketable Securities
• Public Offerings of Senior Notes
• Recapitalization of $460 million
• Recapitalization of The Forum Group, Inc.
• Receivables-Backed Certificates Offering
• Registered distribution of Common Stock of Maybelline, Inc.
• Repurchase
• Rule 144A Offering
• Rule 144A Offering , (2009)
• Rule 144A Offering of Senior Notes
• Rule 144A Senior Notes and Senior Debentures Offering
• Sale of Bridal Group Division
• Sale of Direct Marketing Services Business
• Sale of GE Bayer Silicones
• Sale of OSI Restaurant Partners
• Sale of Receivables
• Sale of the M.W. Kellogg Company
• Sale to FedEx Corporation
• Sale to Illinois Tool Works, Inc. by tender offer and merger
• Sale to L'Oreal by tender offer and merger
• Sale to Tomkins PLC by tender offer and merger
• Sales of Yardley North America and Yardley Colombia businesses
• Serial disposition program for KDI Corporation
• Serial disposition program for PA Holdings Corporation
• Spin-off of Sterling Commerce, Inc.
• Tender Offer
• Tender Offer , (2009)
• Tender Offer
• Tender offer by Singapore Technologies Semiconductors Pte. Ltd
• Tender offer for shares of The Forum Group, Inc.
• Tender Offers for Senior Notes
• U.S. Industries Merger

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

• Texas

Education

• U of Texas - Austin

Published Works

• Merger and Acquisition Activity is Down, But Not Out, Dallas Business Journal, 2009
• Investor Group Intentionally Triggers "Poison Pill", 2009
• Nominating and Governance Committee Action Items for Autumn 2008: No Time To Waste, 2008
• The CSX Decision Regarding Beneficial Ownership and Group Formation, 2008
• Defusing Hedge Fund Attacks, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2007
• Two-Step Transactions Coming Back into Fashion: Reappraisal of the Best-Price Rule Could Revive a Once-popular Form of Corporate Courtship, coauthor, National Law Journal, 2006
• An Ounce of Prevention: Managing the Increased Threat of Appraisal Proceedings Under Delaware Law, 2005
• Insuring for Accuracy - Representation and warranty policies can help purchasers close a deal, Legal Times, 2005
• Good Faith Issues Present New Risks for Directors and Officers, 2005
• Certain Antitrust Implications of Pre-Closing Restrictive Covenants, 2004
• Rule 10b-5 and Related Considerations in Acquisition Agreements, 2004

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