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Mark A. Bonenfant is the former Chair of the Firm's Business Practice Group. He has been with the Firm for over 20 years. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Bonenfant served as a senior attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. (1980-1982). He is a former Deputy Legislative Counsel with the California Office of Legislative Counsel (1978-1980).
Mr. Bonenfant's practice emphasizes corporate securities and other corporate financing transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance and public company reporting obligations. He has counseled boards, committees and management on a wide variety of corporate governance and disclosure issues. He represents clients before the Securities and Exchange Commission, California Department of Corporations, Nasdaq, NYSE and Amex.
Mr. Bonenfant represents companies and their management in connection with public offerings, private placements, Rule 144A offerings, PIPE offerings, public exchange offers and recapitalizations, and venture capital financings. Mr. Bonenfant has represented numerous companies, both public and private buyers and sellers, in asset deals, sale and purchase of divisions, stock and cash mergers, stock acquisitions, management buyouts, leveraged acquisitions, recapitalizations and other complex acquisitions. These transactions have ranged in size from $5 million to $1 billion in retail, manufacturing, technology, health care, brokerage firms, banking and insurance industries.
Mr. Bonenfant has served as general outside corporate counsel for a number of current and former public companies including The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (Nasdaq-restaurant), Mossimo, Inc. (Nasdaq-apparel), Lorimar-Telepictures (Nasdaq-entertainment), Faroudja, Inc. (Nasdaq-technology), Heritage Commerce Corp. (NASDAW-bank holding company), Earl Scheib (Amex-manufacturing and retail), Standard Brands Paint Company (NYSE retail), The Foothill Group, Inc. (NYSE-finance) and Hamni Financial Corporation (Nasdaq-bank holding company). Mr. Bonenfant represented Globe International Limited (Australian publicly-traded company), Guitar Center, Inc, (Nasdaq-retail) and Pacific Capital Bancorp (bank holding company) in various transactions. Mr. Bonenfant also has represented private equity funds, investment banking firms and venture capital funds.
Mr. Bonenfant is an active member of the American Bar Association's Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions and its Committee of Federal Securities Law. He is also an active member of the California State Bar Committee on Legal Opinions, and a former member of the California State Bar Corporations Committee. Mr. Bonenfant is an adjunct professor at USC School of Law where he teaches a course on Securities Regulation, and he formerly taught a course on Mergers and Acquisitions for several years at Loyola School of Law.
Mr. Bonenfant has authored a number of articles in the area of securities and corporate law including:
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