Mark Viera is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other significant corporate transactions. Mark regularly represents private equity firms and public and private corporations on some of their largest and most complex transactional matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, investments, carve-outs, spin-offs, recapitalizations, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. He has experience advising clients on domestic and cross-border transactions across a variety of industries, including financial services, technology, consumer, industrials and real estate.
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Work Highlights
- BC Partners in the sale of its interest in Teneo and its C$5.125 billion recapitalization of GFL Environmental
- Blackstone in its long-term strategic partnership with AIG, which included a $2.2 billion investment into AIG’s Corebridge life and retirement business
- First Data in its $22 billion merger with Fiserv to create one of the world’s leading payments and financial technology providers
- KKR in its acquisition of 1-800 Contacts, a pioneering direct-to-consumer brand
- Stone Point Capital in numerous transactions, including the acquisition of Ascensus, the strategic investments in Beeline and Businessolver, the $7 billion take-private acquisition of Focus Financial Partners, the $1.65 billion take-private acquisition of HireRight, the $15.5 billion carve-out acquisition of the insurance brokerage business of Truist Financial Corporation and the preceding purchase of a 20% stake in the business for $1.95 billion and the acquisition of Kestra
Education
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University of Michigan Law School, 2014 J.D.
cum laude
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Pennsylvania State University, 2009 B.A.
Jim Murray Scholar; Loftus Award
Associations
- New York City Bar Association
Mark Viera is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other significant corporate transactions. Mark regularly represents private equity firms and public and private corporations on some of their largest and most complex transactional matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, investments, carve-outs, spin-offs, recapitalizations, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. He has experience advising clients on domestic and cross-border transactions across a variety of industries, including financial services, technology, consumer, industrials and real estate.
Select transactions include representing:
Mark received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, where he was a Jim Murray Scholar and received the Loftus Award. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.