Attorney with Extensive International Mergers and Acquisitions Experience Joins Harris Beach PLLC
(July 15, 2024) — Harris Beach is excited to welcome an attorney with deep experience in international mergers and acquisitions to our firm as senior counsel in our Corporate Practice Group.
Mark F. Schuber represents investment banks, private equity and venture capital firms, not-for-profit entities and businesses ranging from startups to fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries.
He has represented international entities in mergers as high as $2 billion, including deals to take a Canadian neutral video platform, an electric vehicle manufacturer, and a nanowire battery company public. He has also represented an India-based information technology services company in a $66 million acquisition of a provider of optimization software for the insurance industry, a private equity fund in its sale of one of North America’s largest device-independent telematics and connected vehicle intelligence companies, and a French rental car company in its acquisition of an American rental car company.
Mark has experience in an array of other corporate matters, including joint ventures, strategic investments, venture capital transactions, small and large-scale contract and other commercial negotiations, corporate governance matters, corporate restructuring, officer and director transition planning, regulatory compliance, and other general corporate matters.
His arrival comes during a period of growth for Harris Beach, which recently announced it had approved an Operating Agreement with New England-based Murtha Cullina to form a regional powerhouse in the legal industry. The new firm, to be known as Harris Beach Murtha, will feature more than 250 attorneys across 16 offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia. The mid-size firm with full-service capabilities will serve as a strategic business partner helping clients navigate legal challenges and manage day-to-day operations. The attorneys have a deep understanding of the region’s complex regulatory, governmental, political and cultural environments.
Mark joins Harris Beach’s Corporate Practice Group, which features a team of experienced attorneys regularly representing and supporting domestic and international businesses of all sizes and at all stages of growth, including mid-sized and closely held organizations; emerging and growing businesses; and some of the largest private and public organizations in the U.S. and abroad. The group’s entrepreneurial and strategic approach to working with business clients supports all phases of their growth and evolution and helps them define and meet their immediate and long-term objectives.
The Corporate Practice Group features clients in a broad range of industries, including industrial and product manufacturing, construction, real estate development, health care, pharmaceuticals, financial services, food and beverage, energy, mining, cannabis, renewable energy, gaming, hospitality and blockchain/cryptocurrency. The group is well known for its corporate financing and related transactions work, with deep experience that includes merger and acquisition activity, capital market transactions, debt transaction, equity offerings, venture capital, mezzanine finance, private equity, corporate matters and compliance, and emerging and entrepreneurial business planning.
About Harris Beach PLLC
Founded in 1856, Harris Beach and its subsidiaries provide legal and professional services to clients across New York state, as well as nationally and internationally. Harris Beach is among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.
Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals. The firm’s core practice areas and industries served include appellate law, business and commercial litigation, commercial real estate, corporate, environmental, energy, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, and wills, trusts and estates.
The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Long Island, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, and White Plains, as well as from offices in Washington, D.C., New Haven, Connecticut and Newark, New Jersey. For more information, go to www.harrisbeach.com.