Mark Schwed is a senior associate in the New York office of the firm’s Tax, Benefits, and Executive Compensation Department. His practice focuses on representing public companies and private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with domestic and international acquisitions and investments, divestitures, joint ventures, financings and restructurings.
Mr. Schwed was recently part of the team of Weil attorneys advising longtime client Thomas H. Lee Partners on its bid to recapitalize and take control of Party City, the nation's largest party goods retailer, from a group of private investors in a transaction valued at over $2.6 billion. Over the past five years, Mr. Schwed has also been a member of the Weil team advising Lehman Brothers in connection with its investment in Archstone, its single largest asset, a privately-held owner, operator, and developer of multifamily apartment properties. In February 2012, Lehman Brothers sold its entire stake in Archstone to Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Inc. in a deal valued in excess of $16 billion.
Notable transactions include:
- Lindsay Goldberg - Initial public offering of Aviv REIT Inc. (March 2013)
- Lehman Brothers - Sale of the assets of Archstone to Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Inc. (February 2013)
- Comverse Technologies Inc. - Distribution of Comverse Inc. and its merger with Verint Systems Inc. (February 2013)
- American Securities - Acquisition of Metaldyne, a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered metal-based components (December 2012)
- Lindsay Goldberg - Acquisition of a controlling interest in Value Place Holdings LLC (December 2012)
- CVC Capital Partners - Acquisition of a majority interest in Cunningham Lindsey (December 2012)
- Berkshire Partners - Formation of Torres Unidas, an owner and operator of Cell Towers in the Andean region of South America (November 2012)
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan - Acquisition of a majority interest in Heartland Dental Care (November 2012)
- Decision Resources Group (Providence Equity Partners portfolio company) - Sale to Piramal Healthcare (July 2012)
- Thomas H. Lee Capital Partners - Acquisition of a majority stake in party goods retailer Party City (June 2012)
- HiT Entertainment (Apax Partners portfolio company) - $680M sale to Mattel (October 2011)
- Archstone - In connection with claims that it breached various tax protection agreements in its take-private transaction (August 2011)
- Verizon Communications - Acquisition of Cloudswitch, a cloud computing company (August 2011)
- INC Research (Avista Capital Partners portfolio company) - Acquisition of clinical research firm Kendle International (May 2011)
- American Securities - Acquisition of SpecialtyCare (May 2011)
- Thomas H. Lee Capital Partners - Acquisition of Acosta (January 2011)
- Avista Capital Partners - Acquisition of INC Research (August 2010)
- Uno Restaurant Holdings - Chapter 11 reorganization (July 2010)
- General Electric - Formation of Mubadala GE Capital PJSC, a multi-billion dollar global partnership with the UAE’s Mubadala Development Company (May 2010)
- NBC Universal - Acquisition of the Weather Channel (July 2008)
- Lehman Brother Holdings Inc. - $22B acquisition, with Tishman Speyer, of Archstone-Smith Trust (October 2007)
Mr. Schwed received his B.A., cum laude, from Ramapo College of New Jersey, his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was a member of the Cardozo Law Review and of the Order of the Coif, and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.