Mark D. Director
Professional Profile
Mark D. Director is a corporate partner who works in both the Washington, D.C. and New York offices of Kirkland & Ellis. Called "an extraordinary business lawyer with great judgment" by Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Mark represents both public companies and private equity sponsors in a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate governance matters across a range of regulated and unregulated industries. Having handled hundreds of complex business transactions and advised clients on numerous high-stakes business challenges both in private practice and previously as a public company general counsel and senior executive, Mark is described by clients as "a levelheaded thinker who gets right to the point and provides practical advice based on a wealth of knowledge." Mark also regularly counsels public companies and boards of directors on disclosure, compliance, governance and risk management issues, and in Chambers USA, clients commented that he is "a superstar in terms of securities work."
Representative Matters
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The Corporate Executive Board Company in its $660 million acquisition of UK-based SHL Group.
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MidOcean Partners and Crestview Partners in their $585 million sale of Puerto Rico-based OneLink Communications (the cable system serving San Juan).
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MidOcean Partners in the merger of its Olympus Holdings outdoor advertising business with Fairway Media.
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Constellation Energy in its $7.9 billion merger with Exelon Corporation.
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Arlington Capital Partners in the sale of its Consolidated Precision Products business to Warburg Pincus.
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MidOcean Partners in its $650 million going-private acquisition of Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.
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Arlington Capital Partners in its recapitalization of government contractor Iron Data Solutions.
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MidOcean Partners and Crestview Partners in the $3 billion sale of Insight Communications to Time Warner Cable.
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Monumental Sports & Entertainment in its acquisition of the Washington Wizards, Washington Mystics, Verizon Center and related businesses.
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Constellation Energy, Inc. in its $365 million acquisition of two 550-Megawatt natural gas plants from Navasota Energy.
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Constellation Energy in the $4.5 billion sale of 49.99% of its nuclear generation business to Électricité de France SA.
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Constellation Energy in its proposed $4.8 billion merger with MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (terminated by agreement in December 2008).
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FTI Consulting in its $125 million acquisition of The Schonbraun McCann Group.
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The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Perini Corporation in connection with the $900 million merger of Perini and Tutor-Saliba Corporation.
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Angelo Gordon & Co. and Cerberus Capital Management, as the major stockholders of Acterna Corp., in the $760 million sale of Acterna to JDS Uniphase.
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New Enterprise Associates in its $210 million PIPE transaction with TeleAtlas, N.V.
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MidOcean Partners in its €1.5 billion acquisition of the US and European later-stage private equity portfolio of Deutsche Bank AG.
Memberships & Affiliations
Member of the Board of Directors, Everybody Wins! DC
General Counsel, Washington Hebrew Congregation
Advisory Board Member, Private Equity CFO Association
American Bar Association
Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals
Guest Lecturer on corporate, M&A, and securities subjects, University of Michigan Law School (since 2005)
Adjunct Professor, New York Law School, 1993-1996
Senior Fellow, The Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies, 1991-1995
Other Distinctions
America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA, 2009-Present
The Legal 500, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2007-Present
Washington D.C. Super Lawyers, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2012
World's Leading Corporate Governance Lawyers, Euromoney
