Mr. Bluhm's practice comprises handling clients' business transactions and serving as general counsel to companies without in-house counsel. He possesses a broad range of expertise involving (i) stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions; (ii) corporate and general business matters, including strategic alliances, equity capital investments, new business formations and financing; and (iii) banking law, including regulatory matters and loan transactions for both lenders and borrowers.
A few of the transactions in which Mark has been involved include:
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Represented Sprint PCS in structuring its PCS Affiliate Program and negotiating management, services and license agreements with companies to build-out and operate Sprint PCS networks in specific geographic regions.
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Represented Sprint PCS in obtaining financing for its PCS Affiliates, including syndicated senior secured financing, subordinated debt and public offerings of equity and high yield bonds, aggregating more than $3 billion.
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Represented Sprint PCS in its swaps of FCC spectrum licenses with AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile.
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Represented Sprint Spectrum Holding Company, L.P. in its acquisition of a partnership that holds a broadband personal communications services license for the Washington, D.C./Baltimore major trading area, and in the subsequent sale of the GSM System owned by that partnership to Omnipoint Corporation (a predecessor of T-Mobile).
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Represented a DST Systems, Inc. subsidiary in negotiating agreements with corporate transfer agents to provide their corporate customers the ability to distribute proxy material over the Internet and to receive electronic voting from their shareholders.
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Supervised and handled the sale, liquidation or other disposition of 17 subsidiaries of Franklin Savings Association during the three-year period after the Resolution Trust Corporation was appointed Franklin's conservator.
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Represented shareholders of Russell Stover Candies, Inc. in their acquisition of Whitman's Candies from Pet Incorporated.
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Represented several companies in their investments in unaffiliated businesses.
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Member of four-person negotiating team for American Multi-Cinema, Inc. in $200 million transaction relating to AMC's sale of 90 motion picture theatres and long-term management of those theatres.
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Represented client in successful hostile tender offer to acquire a bank, and represented another client in hostile proxy fight in attempt to control Board of Directors of a publicly owned real estate investment trust.