Dechert LLP

Corporate

Partner

Mark E. Thierfelder, firm co-chair, former chair of the firm's corporate and securities group, and chair of the global private equity practice, concentrates his practice on private equity transactions and domestic and international mergers and acquisitions throughout North America, Europe and Asia. In particular, Mr. Thierfelder represents leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a full range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, leveraged financings, restructurings, and reorganizations. In addition, he negotiates, structures, and executes corporate transactions on behalf of strategic buyers and sellers, and has significant experience representing banks and other institutional lenders in leveraged financings and restructurings.

Over the course of his 30 year career, Mr. Thierfelder has acted on some of the most significant transactions in the market. In fact, he advised on the second largest private equity buyout since the Financial Crisis, according to Mergermarket, and played a lead role advising on the largest private equity exit in 2019, according to Bloomberg. He also advised on two of the largest private equity-backed acquisitions globally in the past three years at the time of their announcements, according to Refinitiv, including his representation of GIC on the acquisition by a Blackstone-led consortium of a majority stake in Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business at an overall valuation of US$20 billion, and his representation of SK hynix as part of a consortium on the US$18 billion acquisition of Toshiba Corporation’s NAND flash memory and solid-state drive business.

Trustee, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ Member, Advisory Board, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Trustee, Chair of Institutional Advancement, Executive Committee, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Co-Chair, Lawrenceville Parents Fund, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey Former Treasurer, Chair of Finance Committee, Executive Committee, Princeton Day School, Princeton, New Jersey Former Member, Advisory Committee, The Deal Former Member, Corporation Law Committee, New York City Bar Association Former Member, Private Equity Editorial Advisory Board, Law360

Rutgers School of Law - Newark, J.D., 1992, with Honors, Order of the Coif Duke University, B.A., 1986