Lawyers / Professionals

 
Robert G. Marks       
Partner
1750 Tysons Boulevard
Suite 1800
Tysons Corner, Virginia 22102-4215
T: 703.712.5061
F: 703.712.5267
rmarks@mcguirewoods.com
 

Mr. Marks is a private equity, M&A and business lawyer who provides legal and policy strategic solutions to private equity funds, venture capitalists, investors, companies and transactions before, during and after the deal closes.

Throughout his 15+ year career, he has helped clients close deals in a variety of industries including clean power, greentech, energy efficiency, manufacturing, healthcare, government services, financial services and consulting. He has also helped general partners raise billions of dollars in private equity fund commitments.

He works with fellow McGuireWoods attorneys in the Private Equity Industry Team and the Energy and Climate Change Industry Team to combine his private equity, investment, M&A and fund formation experience and relationships with their energy, climate, sustainability, infrastructure, project development, financing and energy and environmental commodity market law, regulation and policy knowledge and associations. The goal is to provide an integrated, inter-disciplinary, full service, legal "partnership" on clean power, greentech, energy efficiency and sustainable infrastructure investment, operation, development and growth matters, deals, investments and projects.


Representative Matters
  • Greentech Transactions
    • Sale of a clean power and energy efficiency financial services company to an energy-focused private equity fund.
    • Purchase by a private equity fund of a solar energy services company specializing in commercial, government and residential solar power development, installations and financing solar panel installation, solar power development and energy efficiency.
    • Purchase of assets of a clean power company which included a power purchase agreement to supply up to 300 MW of solar energy to a regional utility and its member municipalities.
  • Healthcare Transactions
    • Purchase and roll-up of home health agencies.
    • Purchase and combination of ambulatory surgical centers.
    • Sale of controlling interest in a general acute hospital.
  • Private Equity Fund Formations
    • PE fund organized to create, identify, acquire and manage clean and renewable "green" energy assets in select target countries of Central and Eastern Europe and in Canada.
    • PE fund headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina which acquires or invests in lower, middle-market businesses.
    • Hybrid fund that invests opportunistically across asset classes - public to private - offering investors excess returns at low correlations to the broader markets.
  • Other Transactions
    • Sale of a business which provides process, technology and related engineering to the sulfuric acid industry.
    • Purchase and recapitalization of operator of heavy lift helicopters to put out forest fires around the world.
    • Refinancing and capital raise for financial compliance consulting services and related software company.

Practices & Industries
Previous Experience
  • Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
  • Associate, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LP

Publications
  • "A Short Guide to Selling a Renewable Energy Company," Private Equity Review, Publication of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), June 16, 2011
  • "Green: Not just the Color of Money, but the Color of New Deals," M&A Alerts, Publication of The M&A Advisor, March 11, 2011
  • "Population and Climate Change Forces Driving the Hot Segments of Environmental and New Energy Investing," Private Equity Review, Publication of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), February 9, 2011
  • "Deal Process and Terms in the Downturn" (Q&A co-authored with Stephen J. Keeler), M&A Alerts, Publication of The M&A Advisor, May 23, 2008
  • "Spread the Word: Don't Ignore Confidentiality Agreements," Co-authored with Patrick Gregory, Buyouts, July 9, 2007
  • "Buying From Or Selling To Another Buyout Firm? Here's Some Advice" (co-authored with Barton C. Walker), Buyouts, Issue 23, November 20, 2006
  • "Sandbagging and Anti Sandbagging: What Every Private Equity Fund Needs to Know," Daily Deal/The Deal, November 6, 2006

Speaking Engagements
  • Panelist, "Smart Grid," The Forum for Growth & Innovation Conference on Green Energy, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2, 2011
  • "Getting Your First Institutional Money," Maryland DC Virginia chapter of the Solar Energy Industry Association Webinar: The Investment Life Cycle of your Renewable Energy Company, June 22, 2011
  • "Structuring and Executing and LBO," Virginia Law & Business Review Symposium: Private Equity and Its Place in the New Global Economy, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 2, 2010
  • "Building Your Company for Growth and Successful Exit," McGuireWoods LLP 2010 Seminar Series, January 28, 2010
  • "How will the Obama Administration Affect Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity," McGuireWoods Spring 2009 Private Equity Series, May 2009
  • "Limited Partner Viewpoint: Raising a Fund in 2008," Southeast Venture Capital Conference, February 28, 2008
 

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, J.D., magna cum laude, 1994

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, A.B., 1991

 
 

ADMITTED

Virginia 2004

District of Columbia 1996

Pennsylvania 1994

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania