| Education | J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, 1981 - Notes Editor for Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal
| B.A., Brandeis University, 1978 |
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| Admitted to Practice | - California
- New Jersey
- New York
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Mark Levinson has substantial experience in a broad range of corporate, securities, real estate and finance matters including an emphasis in municipal finance. Mr. Levinson routinely structures, negotiates and documents the public and private placement of a range of securities offerings; loan restructurings; defaulted bond workouts on behalf of issuers, indenture trustees and bondholders; venture capital and private equity investments. Mark also is involved with providing guidance to businesses on Securities Exchange Act reporting obligations and general corporate and contract matters.
Mr. Levinson has experience in the municipal finance industry and routinely serves as bond and underwriter's counsel, credit and liquidity provider's counsel, and indenture trustee's counsel. He typically is engaged by financial institutions, municipalities, redevelopment agencies, and other governmental authorities and educational institutions to assist in a range of infrastructure, affordable housing, and Mello-Roos and Marks Roos financings utilizing bond or certificate of participation structures, aggregating billions of dollars in securities.
Mark has successfully handled all types of real estate transactions, representing syndicators, developers and owners in their projects including shopping centers, office buildings, warehouse distribution facilities and residential property. Mark has particular experience representing syndication companies, lenders and others in a range of acquisitions, dispositions and private offerings and sale-leaseback arrangements.
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| Areas of Concentration | - General Corporate
- Securities
- Financing transactions and secured lending
- Private Equity Investments
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Real Estate, leasing and land use
- Acquisitions and dispositions of real estate
- Mezzanine, bridge and permanent financings
- Distressed Bond Workouts
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| Significant Representations | - Served as issuers, underwriters and trustees counsel in numerous public offerings over a broad range of projects.
- Represented numerous borrowers and financial institutions in secured and unsecured financings.
- Represented Tenant In Common sponsors in acquisition of various commercial real estate projects pursuant to which the sponsor identified and acquired real estate projects throughout the United States, negotiated the complex loans acquisition financing and structured and administered the acquisition by tenants in common of the real estate.
- Represented indenture trustees in numerous defaulted debt securities relating to companies in a wide range of industries.
- Represented a financial institution providing credit enhancement to major airport and multi-family housing projects.
- Represented Financial Advisors in connection with rendering fairness opinions.
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| Professional & Community Involvement | - Board Member, Spotlight the Arts
- Trustee, Temple Judea, Tarzana and West Hills, California
- Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Member, Business Law, Real Property and Probate & Trust Law Sections of the American Bar Association
- Member, Tenant in Common Association
- Member, Los Angeles Business Counsel
- Member, Los Angeles Business Forum
- Member, Association for Corporate Growth
- Member, Los Angeles Venture Association
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| Articles, Publications, & Lectures | Articles
- Author, "TIC Industry Growing UP: Some Nuts and Bolts," New York Real Estate Journal, September 2006
- Author, "Negotiating Considerations for Tenant-In-Common Loans," New York Real Estate Journal, March 28 - April 3, 2006
- Author, "TIC Sponsors and Loan Negotiation Considerations: Through Understanding Is Crucial," New York Real Estate Journal, January 31, 2006
Speeches
- Speaker, "Sponsor Blowup, Bankruptcy and Workout of a TIC: How Would It Impact the Industry," The Fourth Annual NY Tenant-In-Common Transaction Forum, December 2007
- Speaker, "Structuring TIC Transactions: Regulatory, Legal and Tax Issues," The Fourth Annual NY Tenant-In-Common Transaction Forum, December 2007
- Speaker, Information Management Network - Tenants In Common Forum, New York, New York, December 2006
- Panelist on TIC Investment Property Roundtable Fractionalized Ownership - Los Angeles Real Estate Journal, Los Angeles, 2006
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