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Mark Semotiuk
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Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Corporate Partner
Career
Mark Semotiuk is a real estate M&A attorney that represents private equity funds and REITs in corporate real estate matters across asset classes.
Mr. Semotiuk leverages Latham’s robust global platform and trusted client relationships to consummate high-value real estate transactions, including:
- Mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions
- Secondaries and recapitalizations
- Joint ventures, co-investments and preferred equity placements
- Property and corporate financings
- REIT and private equity fund structuring
Mr. Semotiuk is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Before his legal career he worked in real estate finance, which allows him to bridge each transaction’s legal requirements with his clients’ business imperatives.
Education
Master of Real Estate Development, University of Southern California
BA in Business Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA Institute
JD, Fordham University
LLM in European Union Law, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
(Next Generation Partners)Advising clients that include global and domestic private equity investors, REITs and financial institutions, Latham & Watkins LLP’s nationwide real estate team is known for its strong record advising on large transactions, financings, and joint venture investment work across a wide variety of asset classes and jurisdictions. Having been involved in a number of high-value sales, acquisitions, mergers, and spinoffs on both the borrower and lenders sides, the firm also possesses strong cross-border experience, illustrated by its advising of Apollo on a €1bn investment into a real estate portfolio located in Northern Germany. Michael Haas and Michelle Kelban, both based in New York, co-chair the department while vice-chair Rachel Bates leads from Chicago. Also in Chicago is co-chair of the hospitality, gaming & leisure industry group, Gary E. Axelrod , who has led on numerous transactions and mixed-use developments within the sector; also highly experienced in the hospitality sector is Meghan Cocci, who acts as the fellow co-chair of the group, this time from the firm’s Century City office. New York-based commercial real estate transaction attorneys Justin Elliott and Mark Semotiuk are further key contacts.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate United States > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Government > Government contracts
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism