White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Mark O. Bagnall

Practice Experience

Mr. Bagnall is a partner in the firm's corporate and financial services department. His practice includes a broad range of general corporate commercial representations, including public and private securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Bagnall has represented foreign and domestic financial institutions in providing financings to issuers in Latin America, foreign private issuers and sovereign issuers in Latin America in connection with securities offerings in the United States and elsewhere, and foreign and domestic entities in mergers, acquisition and disposition transactions.

Some of the recent transactions he has worked on are listed below:

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as lead manager and global coordinator, in the largest equity offering ever by a Latin American issuer: the US$12.17 billion public offering by Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale), the world's largest iron ore mining company based in Brazil, of a total of 256,926,766 common shares, including common shares in the form of ADSs, and 189,063,218 preferred class A shares, including preferred class A shares in the form of ADSs.
Credit Suisse, UBS, ABN Amro and Santander, as joint bookrunners in an SEC registered public offering of US$3.75 billion of debt securities by Vale.
Tele Norte Leste Participações and its subsidiary, Telemar Norte Leste, in connection with their tender offers for 20,826,442 preferred shares, including preferred shares in the form of ADSs, of Brasil Telecom Participações and 13,366,365 preferred shares, including preferred shares in the form of ADSs, of Brasil Telecom. The total purchase price for the acquired shares of Brasil Telecom Participações was approximately US$402 million and total purchase price for the acquired shares of Brasil Telecom was approximately US$198.3 million.
Telemar Norte Leste in connection with its tender offer for and and all preferred shares, including preferred shares in the form of ADSs, of Tele Norte Celular Participações. The total purchase price for the acquired shares of Tele Norte Celular Participações was approximately US$80.6 million.
Braskem S.A., the leading petrochemical company in Latin America and the second largest Brazilian-owned private sector industrial company, in connection with the US$500 million offering of 7.250% notes due 2018 under Rule 144A and Regulation S by its wholly owned subsidiary Braskem Finance Ltd.
Braskem S.A. in connection with its US$275 million offering of 8.00% notes due 2017 pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S, and its contemporaneous tender offer for any and all of the $275 million outstanding principal amount of its 12.50 % notes due 2008.
Braskem S.A. in connection with its US$150 million offering of 9.75% Perpetual Bonds pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.
Rede Empresas de Energía Eléctrica S.A., a Brazilian electricity generation and distribution company, in its initial offering and sale of US$400 million aggregate principal amount of 11.125% perpetual notes under Rule 144A and Regulation S, and its follow-on offering and sale of US$175 million aggregate principal amount of these notes under Rule 144A and Regulation S.
Corporación Durango, S.A.B. de C.V., a Mexican paper and packaging company, in the offering and sale of US$520 million aggregate principal amount of its 10.50% senior notes due 2017 under Rule 144A and Regulation S, and its contemporaneous tender offer for any and all of its Series B Step Up Rate Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes due 2012.
Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina, S.A., the largest power generator in the Dominican Republic, in connection with the offer and sale of US$175 million 9.50% senior notes due 2017 pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S by its wholly owned subsidiary EGE Haina Finance Company.

Bars and Courts
Florida State Bar, 2002
New York State Bar, 1995

Education
JD/MBA, University of Florida, 1993
AB, Indiana University, 1986

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States