Biography
A seasoned commercial litigator, Mark is a trusted legal adviser with over 30 years of experience successfully aiding clients in resolving complex, high-stakes disputes involving a broad range of asset recovery, business, contract, corporate, enforcement, entertainment and sports law, intellectual property, regulatory, securities, and tort matters, both domestically and internationally.
Mark quickly analyzes multidimensional variables and how they will impact clients, delivering multilayered, pragmatic and thoughtful counsel across a broad range of businesses, including Fortune 500, private equity, mid-size and emerging companies. His clients span an array of industries such as construction, education, entertainment, financial services, hedge funds, investment management, media, real estate development, sports and technology. He also represents boards of directors, corporate officers and senior executives.
Mark has vast, diverse professional experience, including with:
- Asset recovery.
- Bankruptcy litigation.
- Business torts.
- Class Action litigation.
- Commercial litigation.
- Contract disputes
- Corporate divorces.
- Corporate governance.
- Crypto and digital assets.
- Equity receiverships.
- Financial fraud.
- FINRA.
- Internal investigations.
- Mediation.
- Multi-district litigation.
- Ponzi schemes.
- State and federal regulatory and securities enforcement litigation.
- Whistleblowers.
Mark appreciates and recognizes that each client and matter is unique and never subject to a "one-size-fits-all" approach. He provides comprehensive, customized service, counsel and proposed solutions by really knowing and working alongside his clients "in the trenches” to craft fulsome legal strategies to advance their many objectives.
Mark efficiently assesses disputes in real time, provides advice that fully manages risks and rewards and proactively drives tangible results (and often litigation avoidance) for the most complicated problems. Mark takes immense pride in being a forward-thinking, proactive, business-centric and savvy attorney, whose standard is the provision of first-class legal service delivered at platinum value, through a “what's best for business” foundation.
Beyond his litigation practice, Mark has served as a court-appointed federal equity receiver in connection with the In Re Kinetics action, charged with returning assets to claimants and victims of the alleged malfeasance and fraud in that matter.
Before Fox Rothschild
Mark joined us from an AmLaw 200 firm. He has previously practiced at national and global AmLaw 100 law firms. Mark has also worked as General Counsel for a media and technology company and Deputy General Counsel for an investment management firm.
Mark was one of the few attorneys in the world to interview the late Bernard Madoff in prison as part of the Trustee’s investigation into the largest known Ponzi scheme in history. Mark also served the Recovery Initiative as the first Chair of both the Expert and Settlement Committees, as well as personally leading multiple teams involved in billions in settlements and litigation against managers, investment advisors, domestic and international feeder funds and other institutions.
After earning his law degree, Mark held a judicial clerkship for the Honorable Joseph Longobardi, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Bar Admissions
- Florida
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Education
- Brooklyn Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1992)
- Vassar College (B.A., 1989)
Memberships
- New York State Bar Association
- Commercial Section
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
- International Section
- Hillsborough County Bar Association
- Tampa Circle of Influence
- National Association for Federal Equity Receivers (NAFER)
- Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)
Honors & Awards
- Selected to the "Best Lawyers in America" list for Commercial Litigation, (2022-2026)
- Selected to "The Legal 500" list for the United States (2015-2017)
- Selected to the "Super Lawyers - Rising Stars" list for in the New York Metro (2011-2018)
