Mark Klamer is the leader of the firm’s Corporate Finance Client Service Group.  His practice focuses on corporate finance, representing issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of securities as well as counseling clients on general securities and corporate governance matters.  Such securities offerings have included common and preferred stock, various debt instruments and trust certificates, in settings such as initial public offerings, secondary offerings, 144A offerings, shelf registrations and venture capital investments.  Mr. Klamer also leads transactions in the area of mergers and acquisitions for both public and private companies, including transactions involving stock-for-stock mergers, cash mergers, tender offers, proxy statements, asset acquisitions and liquidations.  He has represented companies in a number of industries, including industrial manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications, real estate investment trusts, retailing, food processors, software, microelectronics, biotechnology, construction, insurance and mortgage-backed securities.  He has been published in the Harvard and University of Chicago law reviews.
During 2000-2001, Mr. Klamer took a leave of absence from the firm and served as senior vice president and general counsel of WorkNet Communications Inc., a provider of fixed wireless, broadband Internet access.  Mr. Klamer’s responsibilities at WorkNet involved participation on the senior management team in addition to legal oversight for all areas, including financings, intellectual property, regulatory issues, real estate, building access, and customer and other commercial contacts.

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Mr. Klamer’s transactional experience includes:

• Advising a national underwriter in connection with a $150 million REIT formation IPO
• Advising a national specialty retailer in connection with a $15 million IPO
• Advising a Fortune 200 industrial company in debt offerings raising billions
• Advising a healthcare provider in connection with hundreds of millions in debt and securities offerings
• Representing national underwriters in connection with numerous securities offerings raising well over $1 billion for a healthcare REIT
• Advising a telecommunications manufacturer in the formation of a $128 million joint venture subsidiary
• Advising a national specialty retailer in connection with a private equity infusion
• Representing the largest maker of private label cream cheese in the U.S. in connection with its sale
• Counseling an underwriter in connection with a $100 million offering by a real estate investment trust
• Advising a bank holding company in connection with a $35 million acquisition
• Advising a public telecommunications equipment manufacturer in connection with a $135 million Rule 144A convertible debenture offering
• Advising a Swiss public company with respect to a $115 million acquisition of a U.S. public company
• Representing a public company in the sale of itself for approximately $500 million
• Representing a utility with respect to the sale of itself for approximately $450 million
• Advising a health care corporation in connection with a $130 million tender offer transaction
• Advising a small private fiber-optic cable telecommunications company in connection with a $506 million dollar face amount note and warrant 144A offering
• Advising a start-up company with respect to $42 million in several rounds of venture capital investment
• Representing an underwriter in connection with a $75 million stock offering by an excimer laser provider
• Representing an underwriter in connection with two $50 million preferred stock offerings by a REIT
• Advising an Irish public company with respect to a $100 million private offering of notes in the U.S.
• Advising an Internet telecom start-up in connection with the purchase of a tech development company

Bar and Court Admissions

Missouri, 1985

Education

Harvard University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1985

University of Virginia, B.A., high honors, 1979