OverviewMark is a member of Butler Snow’s Finance, Real Estate and Restructuring practice group. He has represented lenders and borrowers in substantial real estate and corporate transactions and represented lenders in mortgage and UCC foreclosures. Prior to becoming an attorney, he was a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in the state of New York, where he practiced with a “Big Eight” accounting firm.
Mark has been appointed as a special master by the United States District Court and as a special referee by state courts to conduct foreclosure sales of commercial property and related proceedings on behalf of the courts. He has served as a partition commissioner in connection with the partition of waterfront development property. He has regularly served as a speaker at continuing legal education programs and has made presentations in the areas of commercial real estate, banking law, and creditors’ rights, and has served as an expert witness in multiple real estate-related cases. Experience
- Represented purchaser in $53,000,000 acquisition of a multi-family project.
- Represented a joint venture developer in the $63,000,000 acquisition of a 2,000-acre tract, the closing of a $50,000,000 acquisition and development loan, and the development of a luxury residential community on the South Carolina coast.
- Represented the lender in connection with a $34,000,000 commercial office building acquisition financing.
- Represented a joint venture developer in connection with a $52,000,000 loan refinance for a resort development on the South Carolina coast.
- Represented developer in connection with a $16,000,000 land loan refinance for undeveloped resort property.
- Represented UCC secured creditors in connection with the public and private sales of personal property collateral.
- Represented mortgage lenders in the foreclosure of commercial properties.
- Represented joint venture in the purchase of a nationally flagged hotel in the Charleston, South Carolina area.
- Represented seller in sale of industrial properties in upstate South Carolina.
- Represented purchaser in the acquisition of multiple industrial properties in the Charleston, South Carolina area.
- Represented European industry in the acquisition of an existing industrial facility on the South Carolina coast.
Distinctions
- Fellow, American College of Real Estate Lawyers
- Fellow and State Chair, American College of Mortgage Attorneys
- Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business
- BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
- Banking and Finance Law, 2006-2025
- Corporate Law, 2007-2025
- Litigation – Banking and Finance, 2011-2025
- Lawyer of the Year, Banking and Finance Law, 2012, 2016
- Lawyer of the Year, Corporate Law, 2009, 2014, 2017, 2020
- Lawyer of the Year, Litigation – Banking and Finance, 2021
- Martindale-Hubbell®
- AV® -Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
- Charleston Business Magazine, Legal Elite
- Banking and Finance, 2020
- Commercial Real Estate, 2020-2021, 2023
- Recipient of first annual South Carolina Bar Corporate, Banking & Securities Section Distinguished Lawyer Award
- Former Certified Public Accountant, New York State
Bar Admissions
- South Carolina, 1981
- U.S. District Courts
- South Carolina: District of South Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., 1981
- Notes and Comments Editor, South Carolina Law Review
- Order of the Coif
- New York University, M.B.A., 1978
- Yale University, B.A., 1976
Associations
- Past Chair, South Carolina Bar Real Estate Section
- Past Chair, South Carolina Bar Corporation, Banking, and Securities Section
- Member, Legal Opinion Ad Hoc Committee of the South Carolina Bar
- Chair, Task Force on the Unauthorized Practice of Law in Commercial Transactions of the South Carolina Bar
- Acting South Carolina Bar delegate to the Working Group on Legal Opinions.
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Author, South Carolina chapter of the ABA publication The Law of Guaranties, a Jurisdiction by Jurisdiction Guide to U.S. and Canadian Law.
- Author, South Carolina chapter of the ABA publication Commercial Lending Law, a State-by-State Guide.
- Author, Chapter on Multi-State Practice of Law and Ethics for the book Practical Guide to
- Commercial Real Estate in South Carolina, published by the South Carolina Bar.
- Author, The Use of Non-Imputation Endorsements in Equity Investment Transactions, ACREL Notes (December 2017).
- Author, “CFIUS – It’s Not Just for M & A Lawyers Anymore,” American College of Mortgage Attorneys Abstract Fall 2020.
- Co-author, South Carolina Third Party Legal Opinion Report, issued by the Corporate, Banking and Securities Law Section of the South Carolina Bar.
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