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Mark Stern

Mark D. Stern

Associate
Phone: 404.504.7739
Fax: 404.365.9532
mstern@mmmlaw.com

Mark Stern is an associate in the Corporate, Securities and Real Estate Capital Markets practices. He has a broad corporate practice, concentrating in corporate finance and securities law, corporate governance and transactional matters. Mark represents clients in structuring and consummating complex corporate transactions, including registered and unregistered equity and debt offerings, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He also has extensive experience advising public companies on compliance with periodic reporting requirements (including the preparation and filing of annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and Section 16 filings) and stock exchange listing requirements. Mark also has experience representing investors, including public companies, in connection with venture capital investments, as well as start-up and development stage companies relating to financings and general corporate matters.

Prior to joining MMM, Mark was an associate in the corporate practice group of a large international law firm.

Representative Experience

Capital Markets

  • Modiv Inc. in its initial listing of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange and its at-the-market offering of common stock in the aggregate amount of up to $50 million
  • Modiv Inc. in its underwritten public offering of $50 million of preferred stock and the concurrent listing of such stock on the New York Stock Exchange 
  • Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. in its underwritten public offering of $16.1 million of common stock
  • HC Government Realty Trust, Inc. in its private offering of $90 million of preferred stock
  • Modiv Inc. in its private offering of up to $700 million of common stock
  • Energizer Holdings, Inc. in its concurrent public offerings of $187.5 million of common stock and $187.5 million of preferred stock
  • Energizer Holdings, Inc. in its private offerings of senior notes in the aggregate principal amounts of $500 million, $600 million and €650 million
  • Berry Global Group, Inc. in its private offering of an aggregate of €1.075 billion of first priority senior secured notes
  • Perficient, Inc. in its private offering of convertible senior notes in the aggregate principal amount of $125 million
  • IQVIA Holdings Inc. in the secondary public offering of approximately $890 million of common stock by existing stockholders and the concurrent repurchase by the company of approximately $300 million of common stock

Emerging Companies and Venture Capital

  • Represented a natural language processing text analytics company in multiple venture capital rounds
  • Represented a bioagriculture company in its $20 million Series D venture capital round
  • Represented a multinational agricultural company in a series of early stage venture capital investments

REIT Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Represented a special committee of the board of directors of Resource Real Estate Opportunity REIT, Inc. in connection with its stock for stock merger with Resource Real Estate Opportunity REIT II, Inc. and a related self-administration transaction, resulting in a combined company with a gross real estate value of $2.7 billion
  • Represented Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, Inc. in connection with its stock for stock merger with Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc., resulting in a combined company with a  gross investment value of approximately $4.2 billion 

*Includes representation prior to joining MMM

Accolades

  • Selected, Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2024 - 2025

Membership

  • Institute for Portfolio Alternatives 2022 – 2024 Rising Leaders Council