Spencer Marsden advises clients ranging from small start-ups to large multinational conglomerates in respect to mergers and acquisitions, fundraising, securities law, corporate governance and other business transactions.  Mr. Marsden also advises private equity, venture capital, and angel investment funds in relation to fund formation and investment/acquisition transactions. 

Representative Transactions

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Represented CA, Inc (NASDAQ: CA) in its acquisition of NetQos
• Represented Centex (NYSE: CTX) in its stock for stock merger with Pulte Homes, Inc (NYSE: PHM)
• Represented Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) in its divestiture of its container board division to International Paper Inc (NYSE: IP)
• Represented Manor Care Inc. in its going private transaction and sale to private equity firm Carlyle 
• Represented small private medical device start-up in its sale to CVS
• Represented large industrial Chapter 11 company in its 1145 sale to a foreign mining company
• Represented other Fortune 500 companies and private companies in various mergers, acquisitions and sale transactions

• Represented CSX (NYSE: CSX) in its proxy fight with TCI, a foreign hedge fund /li>
• Represented other Fortune 100 clients in various corporate governance matters and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Angel Investment Transaction

 

• Represented Basic Element in its acquisition of a controlling interest in a public company
• Represented Perry Capital in its various investment transactions
• Represented Lindsay Goldberg Bessemer in various investment transactions
• Represented Hawkeye Partners LP in fund formation and various fund reorganization transactions
• Represented Energy Spectrum Partners in various investment transactions and fund formation
• Represented E2M in its fund formation and issues relating to the Investment Advisers Act 
• Represented other companies and investors in various other entrepreneurial investment transactions

Education and Prior Experience

• Attorney, Baker Botts LLP, Dallas, Texas
• Attorney, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, New York
• Columbia Law School, J.D.; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Member of the Columbia Business Law Review, President of the Columbia Securities and Private Equity Law Association
• University of Utah, B.A., Middle Eastern Studies 

 

Bar Admissions and Memberships

 

• Admitted to the New York State Bar
• Member of the Mountain West Capital Network
• Member of the Philippine Venture Capital Investment Group