Bio

Mark Carter serves as trusted counsel for clients in complex business transactions. Leveraging his substantive legal knowledge—which encompasses corporate formation and governance, finance and lending, acquisitions and dispositions, contract and commercial transactions, and business insolvency—Mark helps his clients accomplish their goals and objectives. Since the start of his legal career, Mark has worked with public and private companies, start-ups, and emerging brands, on a broad range of matters, including asset and business mergers and acquisitions (M&A), distressed M&A, capital raising, debt transactions, 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, workouts, distressed real estate, and collateral dispositions. With more than three decades of industry experience, including food and beverage, telecommunications, steel fabrication, health care, motor fuel, and construction, Mark formulates and implements business-driven objectives and effective strategies for accomplishing transactions aligned with management's goals. 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, Mark spent most of his career with a Chicago boutique insolvency and bankruptcy law firm. More recently, he practiced with a Chicago-based business law firm.