Mark C. Viera

Mark Viera is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other significant corporate transactions. Mark regularly represents private equity firms and public and private corporations on some of their largest and most complex transactional matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, investments, carve-outs, spin-offs, recapitalizations, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. He has experience advising clients on domestic and cross-border transactions across a variety of industries, including financial services, technology, consumer, industrials and real estate.

Select transactions include representing:

• BC Partners and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including the sale of its interest in Teneo; the C$5.125 billion recapitalization of GFL Environmental; the $2.825 billion acquisition by GFL Environmental of Waste Industries; and the $2.2 billion IPO of GFL Environmental
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of BellRing Brands in connection with Post Holdings’ spin-off of BellRing Brands
• Blackstone and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including its long-term strategic partnership with AIG; the carve-out acquisition by ARKA (f/k/a AMERGINT Technologies) of Raytheon’s space-based precision optics business; the C$6.2 billion take-private acquisition of Dream Global REIT; and the C$3.8 billion take-private acquisition of Pure Industrial REIT
• BMC in its $2.5 billion merger with Builders FirstSource
• First Advantage in its $2.2 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of Sterling 
• First Data in its $22 billion merger with Fiserv
• First Reserve in the carve-out sale of its energy infrastructure business to BlackRock and the sale of PrimeLine to VINCI Energies
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of GGP in connection with the $15.3 billion acquisition of GGP by Brookfield
• KKR in its acquisition of 1-800 Contacts

• Silver Lake and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including Software AG in the €2.13 billion carve-out sale of StreamSets and webMethods, the integration platform-as-a-service enterprise technology platforms of Software AG, to IBM

• Stone Point Capital and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including the acquisition of Ascensus; the merger of Ascensus and Newport; the strategic investment in Beeline; the acquisition by Beeline of Utmost; the strategic investment in Businessolver; the acquisitions by Businessolver of Workterra and the Capstone Group; the $7 billion take-private acquisition of Focus Financial Partners with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice; the $1.65 billion take-private acquisition of HireRight with General Atlantic; the $15.5 billion carve-out acquisition of the insurance brokerage business of Truist Financial Corporation and the preceding purchase of a 20% stake in the business for $1.95 billion, the $7.75 billion carve-out sale by CRC Group (f/k/a TIH) of McGriff to Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. and the carve-out sale by CRC Group of Crump Life Insurance Services to AmeriLife; and the acquisition of Kestra

• TD Bank in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Scottrade Bank and the related $2.7 billion acquisition by its affiliate TD Ameritrade of Scottrade’s brokerage business

• Tosca Services in its acquisitions of Polymer Logistics and Contraload

• Vista Equity Partners in its $6.5 billion take-private acquisition of Solera

• Vyaire Medical in the carve-out sale of its consumables business to SunMed

• Yahoo in its acquisition of Artifact

Mark received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, where he was a Jim Murray Scholar and received the Loftus Award. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.