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Practice Summary Mark Wilson’s practice focuses on business: corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions, start-up and emerging business, and general business issues and transactions. He has vast experience representing business owners and national businesses in contractual relations, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, management buy-outs, shareholder disputes and management and ownership succession. Mark also has significant experience negotiating and completing complex business transactions in a variety of industries including beverage manufacturing, retail, real estate, services, information technology and healthcare.
Areas of Focus
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Real Estate Law
- Corporate Finance
- Commercial Transactions
- Business Formation and Shareholder/Owner Agreements
Representative Experience
- Significant experience in areas of tax, succession and business planning for closely-held businesses
- General counsel for a national retailer on the consolidation of various cross-family owned operating entities with attendant ownership and management shifts, shareholder disputes, management buy-outs and inter-generational transfers of ownership and control
- Represented more than a dozen Coca-Cola soft drink bottlers in a rapidly changing and consolidating industry, including contractual relations with The Coca-Cola Company and other national soft drink licensors, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, management buy-outs, shareholder disputes, management and ownership succession, and related business, estate, and tax planning
- Represented clients in business acquisitions and divestitures and public, private and leveraged financing
- Represented clients in reorganizations and recapitalizations and hotel, office, retail, residential and mixed-use commercial real estate development and financing
- Primary real estate counsel and advisor to a national real estate owner, operator and developer, included structuring and financing of senior living campuses, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities with ancillary wellness, child care, pediatric and memory care wings
- Lead counsel for nursing and senior housing projects in California, Florida, the Pacific Northwest,and the Upper Midwest
- Lead counsel on various national partnership reorganizations and capital deployments
- Organized, financed and structured the business format for a vending management business including licensing, distribution,and negotiation of contracts with Fortune 500 clients
- Lead counsel on design and implementation of a multi-tiered estate and tax plan for numerous high-net worth families
Bar Admissions
Professional Memberships
- Hennepin County Bar Association
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
Other Professional Experience
- Board of Directors, Winmark Corporation, Member
- Board of Directors, Winthrop Resources Corporation, Former Member
- Board of Directors, T.K. Gray, Inc. , Former Member
- Board of Directors, Rochester Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and St. Croix Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc. Former Member and Shareholder
- Tivoli Too, Inc., Former Shareholder and Advisor
Community Activities
- Board of Directors, Minnesota Community Foundation, Member
- Board of Directors, St. Paul Foundation, Member
- Board of Directors, Intergenerational Living and Health Care, Inc., and Northern Arizona Senior Living Community, LLC, Member
- Board of Directors, GiveMN.org, Member
- Board of Directors, Minnesota Real Estate Foundation, Member
Education
- Juris Doctor, cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School
- Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Carleton College
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