Mark J. DiFiore
Advises financial and corporate clients on the structuring, negotiation and execution of a wide range of equity-linked transactions.
Mark is a member of our Derivatives & Structured Products and Capital Markets practices. Financial and corporate clients look to Mark to structure, negotiate and execute a wide range of equity-linked transactions. These include public and private optional and mandatory convertible securities offerings and related derivatives transactions, margin loans secured by positions in public companies, accelerated share repurchase programs, and various hedging and monetization transactions implemented through equity derivatives.
Chambers USA recognizes Mark for his work in both convertible debt and derivatives. A convertibles client quoted by Chambers says Mark “is a high-level performer and has strong commercial awareness,” while a derivatives client says he is “a tremendous asset, highly knowledgeable in the equity derivatives space and exceptionally reliable.”
Experience
Mark’s transactional experience includes the following representations:
- Issuers and underwriters or initial purchasers on optional and mandatory convertible or exchangeable securities offerings of various structures (e.g., optionally convertible or exchangeable debt securities, mandatory convertible preferred stock, equity units and tangible equity units)
- Issuers and dealers in connection with various derivatives entered into in connection with a convertible securities offering (e.g., call spread, capped call and forward repurchase transactions)
- The largest structured margin loan on a publicly traded underlying security
- Issuers and dealers in connection with accelerated share repurchase programs
- Dealers in connection with various hedging, monetization and accumulation transactions, such as covered calls, collars, variable prepaid forwards, swaps and put/call combinations
- Dealers and underwriters in connection with SEC-registered forward sale transactions
Recognition
Chambers USA – Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
Chambers USA and Global – Derivatives, USA
IFLR1000 – Capital Markets: Derivatives, United States, Highly Regarded
International Tax Review – “Rising Star,” Structured Finance & Securitisation, 2022
IFLR Americas Awards – “Rising Star,” Capital Markets, 2020
Education
- magna cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Associate Editor, Fordham Law Review
- magna cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York