MHFM LAW David W. Marks

Direct Phone: 206-382-2430

Direct Fax: 206-384-4388

PRACTICE AREAS

General Counsel - Serves as general counsel to technology, employment, travel, professional service, telecommunications, manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, real estate and publishing companies.

Emerging Businesses - Advises early-stage start-ups; critiques business plans; prepares private placement memorandum, founders' agreements, stock purchase and subscription agreements, shareholder agreements, employment agreements and stock option plans and agreements.

Mergers & Acquisitions - Negotiates and structures purchases and sales of businesses and business combinations; drafts asset and stock purchase agreements and merger agreements.

Tax Planning - Provides tax planning advice and prepares complex corporate and individual income tax returns.

Mediator - Serves as mediator in marriage dissolutions involving large estates and closely-held businesses.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

Deloitte & Touche - 1985 - 1992

Certified Public Accountant

Senior Tax Manager

Tax Professional Development Director

Tax advisor to closely-held and public companies and their key executives; provided industry-specific consulting, compliance, personal financial and business planning services; technical experience includes non-taxable reorganizations, new business formations, preparation of complex corporate and individual income tax returns, client representation before IRS; SEC, FASB and other agencies.

EDUCATION

University of Oregon School of Law, J.D., 1985

State University of New York at Buffalo, B.S. in Accounting, 1981

Professional Societies and Civic Activities

Washington State Bar Association

Washington Society of CPAs