Robert Newmark concentrates his practice in the areas of business and transactional counseling. His practice includes mergers and acquisitions, general commercial counseling, joint ventures and strategic alliances, private offerings of securities and other issues arising under federal and state securities laws. Mr. Newmark has experience representing public companies, closely held businesses, venture capital firms, investment partnerships and financial institutions, and has considerable experience representing portfolio companies of venture capital and buyout firms. He counsels companies in a number of industries, including manufacturing, finance, nutritional supplements, retail/luxury and telecommunications.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Newmark was a management consultant with Mercer Management Consulting in Washington, D.C., where he advised Fortune 200 companies on business strategy issues. He also was an associate with another law firm in St. Louis, Mo.

Select Representations

Representative recent engagements include:

• Advised public company in ~$60 million acquisition of a privately-held branded apparel company staged over a 3-year period
• Advised nutritional supplement manufacturer in ~$240 million joint venture/acquisition
• Advised multi-national private equity firm and its portfolio company in connection with ~$70 million refinancing and cross-border restructuring project in the British Virgin Islands and the Netherlands
• Advised strategic investor in $15 million preferred equity infusion in customer’s business
• Advised minority shareholders in connection with squeeze-out transaction under Delaware law
• Advised strategic investor in connection with management of a controlling position in a public company subsidiary
• Advised strategic investor in complex international joint venture/buyout in the consumer products industry
• Advised board of directors regarding fiduciary duties in connection with a leveraged recapitalization project
• Serve as outside general counsel to several industry-leading companies in the nutritional supplements, media and advertising, and consumer products industries
• Manage internal corporate governance compliance for privately-held manufacturing business with numerous affiliated companies
• Advised private equity firm in connection with ~$50 million leveraged acquisition of software company
• Advised family-owned business in connection with sale of control to private equity firm
• Advised buyer in connection with acquisition of assets through bankruptcy proceeding in section 363 sale process
• Advised private equity portfolio company and sponsor firms in establishment of complex equity plan for senior management
• Advised third generation-owned family business in connection with stockholders’ agreement, voting trusts, and management issues
• Advised family-owned business in bolt-on acquisition to support growth of product lines

Bar and Court Admissions

Missouri, 1994

New York, 2007

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Education

Washington University, J.D., Order of the Coif, 1994

Princeton University, A.B., 1988