Mark Carman advises clients on mergers and acquisitions; private equity, venture capital, and angel investment transactions; private offerings; investment fund formation; investment banking transactions; and numerous other business matters.
Representative Transactions
- Represented Quality Linen & Towel Supply Co. in the sale of Quality Linen to Unifirst Corporation (NYSE: UNF)
- Represented United Mergers & Acquisitions Consultants, Inc. in connection with the acquisition of Burdick Paving by Staker Parson Companies.
- Represented the owners of various Utah Sonic drive-in franchise locations in the sale of those businesses
- Represented Chums, Inc. in the acquisition of Chisco, Inc. by Chums, Inc.
- Represented ABC Preschool and related parties in the sale of ABC Preschool and related businesses to Great Beginnings, Inc..
- Represented Jensen Oil Co. in connection with the sale of Jensen Oil Co. to Kellerstrass Enterprises Inc.
- Represented Lifelink Corporation in the acquisition of Lifelink Corporation by Ebix, Inc.
- Represented Gorge Rock Products, Inc. in connection with the acquisition of Layos, Inc.
- Represented Brent Black, D.D.S. in the sale of the dental practice of Brent Black, D.D.S. to Jeffery L. Buxton, D.M.D.
- Represented Valley Glass, Inc. in the spin-off of its Boise location
- Represented JD Investments of Utah LLC in the acquisition of Newsletters Ink Corp.
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Represented parties on both sides in various other merger and acquisitions
transactions for large and small companies
Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Angel Investment Transactions
- Represented DW Healthcare Partners L.P. in the acquisition of a controlling interest in Genesis Technology Partners LLC.
- Represented Simpliphones Inc. in various private placement transactions
- Represented Lumiport LLC in various private placement transactions
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Represented other companies and investors in various other entrepreneurial
investment transactions
Fund Formation
- Represented Hawkins Capital Partners, L.L.C. in the formation of Hawkins Capital Fund, L.P.
- Represented Reference Capital Management, LLC in the formation of Sustainability Investment Fund 2008, LP
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Represented Northwest Asset Group LLC in the formation of Northwest Equity
Fund I, L.P.
- Represented Paulson Investment Company as underwriter for public offering by Q Comm International, Inc.
- Represented Paulson Investment Company as underwriter for public offering by Path 1 Network Technologies Inc.
- Represented Paulson Investment Company as underwriter for public offering by I-Sector Corporation
- Represented Paulson Investment Company as underwriter for the initial public offering by Lumera Corporation
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Represented D.A. Davidson & Co. as underwriter for the secondary offering of
shares of Perini Corporation by Tutor-Saliba Corporation.
Education and Prior Experience
- Certified Public Accountant, State of Utah, 1999-2007
- Attorney, Stoel Rives LLP, Corporate Group, Salt Lake City, 2001-2009
- Chief Executive Officer of Symbii Home Health and Hospice (formerly BlueStar Home Health LLC), a Utah based home health care company; currently Chief Financial Officer of Symbii Home Health and Hospice
- General Manager of Alert Cellular, a mobile phone sales organization in Utah, Idaho, and Washington
- Certified Public Accountant, Bybee & Child, CPAs
- S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, J.D., 2001; Order of the Coif; Executive Editor, Utah Law Review
- University of Utah, B.A., 1986, Accounting
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Utah Legal Elite by Utah Business Magazine
Publications
- "Five Mistakes to Avoid When Raising Capital in Utah, Connect Magazine (July 2006), reprinted in The Enterprise (February 11-17,2008);
- "New Sarbanes-Oxley Act Rules Regarding the Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures", The Journal Entry, April 2003;
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"When Should Your Client Consider Getting a Fairness Opinion?", The Journal
Entry, October 2002.
