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M(619) 921-0729

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Education

  • J.D., Columbia University School of Law

  • A.B., cum laude, Dartmouth College

Bar Admissions

  • California

Services

  • Corporate & Finance

  • Tax

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Commercial Real Estate Transactions

  • Real Estate Joint Ventures & Equity Investments

Industries

  • Financial Services

  • Real Estate

  • Investment Management

  • Manufacturing

Clark H. Libenson

Partner

Clark is a corporate partner in the San Diego office. For more than three decades, Clark has helped companies navigate and successfully complete a broad range of business transactions both in the United States and abroad. Clark's practice focuses on corporate finance and business transactions, including joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and private placements of equity and debt, real estate securities, employee equity and compensation arrangements, and corporate governance and board advisory matters.

Clark represents manufacturers, medical device and other technology companies, mining ventures, issuers of real estate securities, and real estate enterprises, among others.

JOINT VENTURES

  • Preylock Real Estate Holdings. Joint venture documentation and syndicate investor documents. Preylock is a real estate acquisition and management company focused on acquiring and managing tenant-occupied commercial real estate properties, primarily in the technology sector.
  • TerraGrande, LLC. Establishment of a joint venture known as Lake Mountain Mining, LLC (Lake Mountain), to acquire real property, perfect mining rights, and establish mining operations within the Olinghouse Mine District in Nevada.
  • Real Estate of the Pacific, Inc. Formation of a joint venture with Pickford Realty, Inc. to acquire the San Diego County and Orange County operations of Sotheby's International Realty.
  • Fonterra Co-operative Group. New Zealand entity in its Latin America manufacturing joint ventures with Nestle S.A.
  • Hyundai Motor Company. Manufacturing and distribution joint venture with Daimler Chrysler de Mexico.
  • Sunrise Company. Grupo Situr Joint Ventures in Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada, Mexico.
  • Lyle Anderson Company. Loch Lomond, Scotland joint venture.

COMMERCIAL FINANCE

  • Astec BSR PLC. Embedded power manufacturer in a term loan and revolving credit facility with Standard Chartered Bank.
  • National Pen Company. Term loan and revolving credit facility with Comerica Bank.
  • Signet Armorlite, Inc. Term loan and revolving credit facility with Wells Fargo Business Credit.
  • S. Bank, N.A. Cross-border lending program.
  • GE Capital Corp. Equipment leasing company in U.S.-Mexico capital equipment leasing transactions.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

  • Kimball International, Inc. Acquisition of the assets of a California-based furniture manufacturer and the stock and assets of its affiliates in Mexico and the People's Republic of China.
  • Hamilton Capital Partners. Acquisition of Union Development Financial.
  • Roberts Irrigation Products. Acquisition by John Deere & Co.
  • Advanced EDM Automation. Acquisition by WHI Capital Partners.
  • X-Drive, Inc. Acquisition by America Online, Inc.
  • Ingram Micro Holdings. Acquisition of Distribuidora de Computos, S.A. de C.V.

PRIVATE PLACEMENTS

  • Hamilton Zanze. Private placement of tenant-in-common interests and in the formation of private investment funds.
  • SFX Broadcasting, Inc. Rule 144A placement of preferred stock.
  • Textainer Marine Containers. Rule 144A placement of floating rate asset backed notes.
  • Hamilton Capital Partners Fund II, L.P. Private placement of partnership interests.
  • Lake Mountain Mining, LLC. Private placement of membership interests and convertible notes.

PUBLIC OFFERINGS

  • PT Indosat. Initial Public Offering (ADRs).
  • Overland Storage, Inc. Initial Public Offering (Common Stock).
  • SFX Broadcasting, Inc. Public Offering (Common Stock).
  • Sillerman Companies. Universal Shelf (Debt and Equity Securities).
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