Alan S. Mark

Alan S. Mark is a member of the firm's Business/Commercial Transactions, Financial Services, Real Estate and Computer, Internet and Technology practice groups. For more than 30 years, he has concentrated on corporate, commercial and real estate finance matters and has served as outside counsel to numerous local, regional and national financial institutions. He has also provided outside counsel to publicly traded biotechnology companies, information and telecommunication technology clients, government entities and individuals in conjunction with technology transfers, business acquisitions, project development and equity and debt financings.

Since 1996, Mr. Mark has overseen more than $750 million of structured lease financing transactions for the development of nearly two million square feet of biotechnology research and development facilities and cGMP pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. In 2006, he was lead counsel for the seller/lessee in what is believed to be among the all-time largest privately financed real estate transactions in the State of Maryland.

Over a 20-year period, Mr. Mark has been an Adjunct Professor of Law, first at Georgetown University Law School for 12 years and currently at American University's Washington College of Law, where he has taught for the past 17 years. Mr. Mark serves on the Strategic Council of the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and is profiled in Who's Who in America.

A native of New York City, Mr. Mark received a B.A. degree from New York University and graduated cum laude from American University's Washington College of Law in 1973, where he served as an Editor of the Law Review. He also earned an LL.M. in Taxation from George Washington University (1977). Mr. Mark is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars.

Education

LL.M. in Taxation, George Washington University National Law Center, 1977
J.D., Cum Laude, American University, Washington College of Law, 1973
B.A., New York University, 1969

Teaching Positions

Former Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law School (1987-1998)

Adjunct Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law (1992–present)

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