Mark Stachiw
Mark Stachiw
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Education
J.D., University of California, Davis, 1985
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Political Science, University of California, Davis, 1982
Practice Areas
Corporate and Commercial Transaction
Acquisitions and Divestitures
General Business and Legal Counseling
Communications Law
Internet and eCommerce
Mark Stachiw
Of Counsel
Mark Stachiw, Of Counsel, has over 30 years of corporate, securities, governance, regulatory and transactional experience serving as the General Counsel for publicly traded, and divisions of publicly traded, companies and a private equity firm.
Mark is the former Vice Chairman, General Counsel and Secretary for MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE:PCS), the fifth largest wireless company in the United States and a Fortune 500 company with revenues of over $5 billion. Before that, Mark served as General Counsel of Verizon Wireless Messaging (a division of Verizon Wireless) and Allegiance Telecom Company Worldwide (a division of Allegiance Telecom). Most recently Mark was a Managing Partner and the General Counsel and Secretary for NxGen Partners, a boutique private equity investment company focusing on the telecommunications and technology industries.
Mark has deep corporate governance and corporate securities experience and extensive experience in drafting, advising on and negotiating complex transactional documents, including M&A, supplier, vendor, customer, interconnection, roaming, securities and financing agreements, and software licenses. At MetroPCS, Mark took the company public, negotiated and consummated the largest domestic M&A transaction announced in 2012 with T-Mobile USA valued in excess of $30 billion, negotiated and consummated a number of smaller M&A transactions, raised and refinanced $28 billion in leveraged and high yield, registered and 144A financings, secured loans, bridge loans, consent solicitations and other financial transactions totaling over $28 billion, and closed a $750 million private placement and tender offer.
Mark also has extensive experience in federal telecommunications regulation having represented a number of companies before, and lobbied on their behalf, the Federal Communications Commission for over 25 years. Further, Mark has significant experience in managing complex commercial, intellectual property and securities litigation, including “bet the company” litigation. Finally, Mark has significant experience representing companies seeking investment and investors seeking to make venture capital and private equity investment in the telecommunications and technology industries. While at NxGen Mark was responsible for sourcing over 300 private equity investment opportunities and consummating four investments in less than twelve months.
Mark earned a J.D. from University of California, Davis School of Law, and Bachelor of Arts cum laude from the University of California, Davis. Mark is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and the Order of the Coif.
