Bio

Mark Carter serves as trusted counsel for clients in complex business transactions. Leveraging his substantive legal knowledge—which encompasses commercial transactions, corporate formation and governance, finance and lending, acquisitions and dispositions, and business insolvency—Mark helps his clients accomplish their goals and objectives. Throughout his career, Mark has worked with public and private companies, start-ups, and emerging brands, on a broad range of matters, including: capital raising and debt transactions, vendor and supply contract development, asset and business acquisitions, and restructurings. In the process, he has advised board members, managers, and partners, regarding their duties and obligations, and developed processes for addressing corporate governance matters. Mark also assists financial institutions and other lenders with middle market loan documentation, secured transactions, and workouts and collateral dispositions. Armed with experience that spans more than three decades and a number of industries—including food and beverage, telecommunications, steel fabrication, health care, motor fuel, and construction—Mark has deep experience with formulating and implementing business-driven objectives and common strategies for accomplishing transactions consistent with management's goals. In particular, through his blended practice, Mark is frequently called upon to assist clients with tailoring their contracts for insolvency preparedness, structuring and effectuating distressed acquisitions, and, where circumstances warrant, restructuring their operations and financial affairs. Before joining Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Mark spent the majority of his career with a boutique insolvency and bankruptcy law firm in Chicago. More recently, he practiced with a Chicago-based business law firm.