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Practice Experience

Mark L. Mandel represents parties in domestic, cross-border and global mergers and acquisitions, financing, private equity and restructuring transactions. He represents numerous corporations, financial institutions and private equity funds in transactions involving a broad range of industries such as automotive, energy, entertainment, financial services, high technology, manufacturing, mining, retail, services and transportation. Mr. Mandel also regularly represents boards of directors and special committees in connection with corporate governance and fiduciary duty issues. He has extensive experience representing Canadian clients in cross-border M&A, financing and restructuring transactions.

Mr. Mandel has been named by EuroMoney's IFLR1000 publication as one of the world's leading lawyers. Mr. Mandel is also listed in Legal 500 USA for M&A/Private Equity/Mega-Deals.

Mark is a member of the Securities Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission and the Advisory Board of the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Mark is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars such as the upcoming 2009 American Bar Association Spring Meeting.

A sample of some of Mr. Mandel's representations include:

J.P. Morgan, Barclays Capital and UBS Investment Bank as underwriters for Campbell Soup Company's 2009 note offering;
Avon Automotive Holdings Inc. in its 2009 refinancing and recapitalization;
Visa Inc. in its $19.7 billion initial public offering with JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs;
The Transitional Governance Committee of Visa International Service Association and Visa Inc. in the global restructuring of the Visa enterprise;
HudBay Minerals Inc. in its acquisition of Skye Resources and in its proposed acquisition of Lundin Mining Corporation;
Coinmach Services Inc. in its sale to Babcock & Brown;
Red Diamond Capital, an affiliate of Mitsubishi Corporation, in its acquisition of the automotive division of Avon Rubber;
Pitney Bowes Inc. in the sale of its capital services external financing business to Cerberus Capital Management, in the sale of its Imagistics leasing portfolio to a subsidiary of Rabobank and in the proposed tax-free sponsored spin-off of its capital services external financing business with Cerberus Capital Management as the sponsor;
Golfsmith International Holdings Inc. in its initial public offering with Merrill Lynch;
iPayment Inc. in its going private transaction, in its senior subordinated notes offering, in its add-on acquisition of a portfolio of merchant accounts from First Data’s Merchant Services subsidiary, in its acquisition of a portfolio of agent bank agreements and merchant accounts from First Data's Merchant Services subsidiary and in its initial public offering with Bear, Stearns & Co.;
iPayment Investors Inc. in its subordinated notes offering;
BMO Nesbit Burns as financial advisor to Golden Star in its unsolicited exchange offer for IAMGold;
NUI Corporation in its sale to AGL Resources Inc.;
Pengrowth Energy Trust in its acquisition of Esprit Energy Trust;
TransCanada Power L.P. in its acquisition of the ManChief and Curtis Palmer power facilities;
Mirant Corporation in the disposition of its interest in the Coyote Springs II power plant to Avista Corporation;
Hydrogenics Corporation in its issuance to General Motors of approximately 24% of Hydrogenics' outstanding common shares, in its takeover bid for Stuart Energy Systems and in its initial public offering with Citigroup Global Markets;
Bowne & Co. Inc. in its sale of BGS Companies Inc. to Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. and in its acquisition of Berlitz GlobalNET;
Uniphase Corporation in its acquisition of JDS Fitel;
Intel Corporation in its acquisition of Shiva Corporation;
IDT Corporation in its acquisition of InterExchange Inc.;
Razorfish Inc. in its acquisition of International Integration and in its initial public offering;
Republic Industries, Inc. in the IPO spin-off of its waste business, Republic Services, with Merrill Lynch;
Environmental Systems Products Holdings Inc. in its debt tender offer;
Designated underwriters' counsel for Clearnet Communications in multiple registered offerings of debt and equity securities with Morgan Stanley, RBC and TD Securities;
The Stena group of companies in its sale of Stena Offshore N.V. to Coflexip S.A., in its offering of Stena AB senior notes with Chase, in its acquisition of a fleet of crude and bulk carriers from the estate of Daniel Ludwig, in its offering of Concordia Maritime AB senior secured notes with Chase and in its offering of Stena Offshore senior secured notes with Chase;
Mafco Consolidated Group Inc. in its reverse merger with Abex Corporation, issuance of Value Support Rights and spin-out of Pneumo Abex Corporation;
Capricorn Investors in its acquisition of Mrs. Fields, Hot Sam's Pretzels and The Original Cookie Company to create Mrs. Field's Original Cookies, Inc.;
Invercel Ltda. in its investment in Movilink, a joint venture among U.S. and Colombian investors to develop trunked radio telecommunications in Colombia; and
UAL Corporation in its employee stock ownership plan's acquisition of 55 percent of the stock of UAL in exchange for wage concessions and work rule changes and in its issuance of Debentures and Preferred Stock with Merrill Lynch.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1995

Education
LLM, University of Chicago, 1990
LLB, University of Toronto, 1988
BA, University of Toronto, 1985

Professional Associations and Memberships
Law Society of Upper Canada (legal practice outside of Ontario)

Publications
When Should a Board Form a Special Committee to Run the Sale of a Controlled Public Company? – Boardroom Briefing: Mergers & Acquisitions, Summer 2007
Sellers Avoid a Tax Bite with Sponsored Spinoffs – Mergers & Acquisitions, April 2007
Wielding a Club "Proliferating Club Deals Pose Special Challenges to Counsel" – New York Law Journal, June 29, 2006
Co-author of "The Public Company Primer – A Practical Guide to Going Public, Raising Capital and Life as a Public Company," published by R.R. Donnelley

Languages
English

Citizenship
Canada