Mark Vecchio is the chair of the New York Corporate Group of Venable LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm. He represents clients in corporate and commercial transactions, with a focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, domestic and international project finance, international joint ventures, public-private partnerships, infrastructure development projects, and private equity transactions. His clients include U.S. and international corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and governments.
Mark has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting documentation for mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate governance, capital markets transactions, privatizations, energy and natural resource development projects, intellectual property transactions, and inbound and outbound international direct investments and financing. He also counsels clients regarding infrastructure development projects, particularly those involving transportation, fossil fuels, and renewable and alternative energy.
Mark earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University, where he majored in Russian and East European Studies. He has lived and worked in a variety of international locations before joining Venable. He speaks English, French, German, Swiss-German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Portuguese.