M&A and Private Equity Practice Earns #1 Worldwide Rankings
First-half 2024 league tables by Bloomberg, Infralogic, LSEG, and Mergermarket reflect firm’s leading performance.
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Mark Bekheit, Global Vice Chair of Latham’s M&A practice, provides practical strategic advice to technology and life science companies at all stages in connection with mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, and other strategic corporate transactions.
Mark's experience includes public and private company mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, tender and exchange offers, joint ventures, and minority investments for strategic and private equity clients, as well as general corporate representation and strategic planning for both publicly-traded and privately-held companies.
Mark previously served as the lead in-house corporate lawyer of a Silicon Valley-based Fortune 500 company in its acquisitions and strategic investments in the consumer and enterprise data storage industries, which gives him first-hand experience into the relevant considerations and needs of corporations with regards to strategic transactions.
Mark is widely acknowledged for his excellence. He is recognized by Chambers USA for his M&A work in Northern California, named a 2022 40 Under 40 Honoree by Bloomberg Law, named one of the 2021 Leading Dealmakers in the US by Lawdragon 500, named a 2021 Rising Star in the Technology industry by Law360, and received the Emerging Leader award by The M&A Advisor in 2019.
A selection of Mark's experience includes representation of:
First-half 2024 league tables by Bloomberg, Infralogic, LSEG, and Mergermarket reflect firm’s leading performance.
Latham & Watkins has been named a 2023 Mergers & Acquisitions Group of the Year by Law360 in recognition of the firm’s innovative work on several of the most complex and transformative deals across industry sectors.
Latham’s #1 rankings reinforce firm’s position as a global transactional powerhouse.