Mark R. Stabile

Director
412.297.4966
mstabile@cohenlaw.com

Mark is Executive Vice President of Cohen & Grigsby and Head of the firm’s Business & Tax Group. He specializes in negotiating and structuring mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and he serves as corporate counsel for regional and national privately held companies, leveraged buyout private equity funds and mezzanine debt private funds. 

Experience

Mark’s experience covers a broad range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalizations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as mezzanine debt and other private equity capital transactions. Mark has represented businesses and business owners, individual investors, institutional investors and private equity funds in these transactions. He also has counseled landlords, tenants, developers and businesses in acquiring, selling, leasing,    financing and developing commercial, retail, office and industrial real estate.  

While providing general day-to-day business legal advice for many companies, Mark also acts as a strategic business counselor to his clients as they are considering crucial business transactions or long-term investments.

Select Recent Representative Matters

• Acquisition by private equity fund in an auction purchase from another private equity fund of a laboratory research and packing products supply  company operating in the eastern region of the United States

• Acquisition by private equity fund in an auction purchase from another private equity fund of a designer, manufacturer and marketer of components and sub-systems used by the material handling industry

• General business representation of leading U.S. manufacturer of  bedding products

• Sale by private equity fund of company providing products maintenance and services to railroads, shortline railroads, and owners of industrial track

• Representation in general business matters of privately held specialty chemical manufacturer

• Sale by private equity fund to combined strategic and financial buyer of      manufacturer of large-sized gray and ductile iron castings

• Mezzanine debt and equity warrant investment in leading manufacturer of promotional products and OEM components

• Mezzanine debt and equity investment to support acquisition in specialty metals industry

• Mezzanine debt and equity investment to support private equity fund add on acquisition in global plastics compounding industry

• Representation of national provider of third party logistics and distribution services in real estate and joint venture transactions

Additional Roles

• Volunteer Director – Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business “Management Game” – 2000-2006, 2010-present

• School Advisory Committee – St. Bernard School, Mt. Lebanon, PA – 2005-2007

• Mark is also a member of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, the Pittsburgh Chapter of Legatus, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Allegheny County Bar Association 

Representative Publications and Speeches

• Co-author, “M&A Deal Strategies,” Aspatore Books (2008)

• Co-author, “Mergers & Acquisitions Law 2008,” Aspatore Books (2008)

• Contributing Author, “Winning Legal Strategies for Mergers & Acquisitions (Inside the Minds),” Aspatore Books (2008)

• Author, “Mergers, Acquisitions and Venture Capital Investments: Sealing the Deal,” Pittsburgh TEQ Magazine (October 2006)

• Quoted, “The Original Fast Track:  Five Years Later, Where We are Now,” Pennsylvania Law Weekly (Fast Track Supplement Fall 2006)

• Speaker, “The Winning Legal Strategies for Doing VC Deals,” ReedLogic Conference (March 2006)