Mark Vecchio specializes in corporate and commercial transactions, with a particular emphasis on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, domestic and international project finance, international joint ventures, public-private partnerships, infrastructure development (with a focus on transportation and energy), and private equity transactions.

Mr. Vecchio regularly serves a range of domestic and international clients, both public and private, including financial institutions and foreign governments.  He has extensive experience in the negotiation and documentation of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, capital markets transactions, privatizations, natural resource development projects, intellectual property transactions, and in-bound and out-bound foreign direct investment and financing.  He has significant personal international experience, having lived and worked for extended periods in France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and Canada. In addition to his native English, Mr. Vecchio speaks French, German, Swiss-German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Portuguese.

Activities

Mr. Vecchio is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Law School, where he teaches an upper-class seminar on Strategic International Commercial Transactions.  He is also a member of the International Law and Practice Section of the American Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

He was Chairman of the Committee on Soviet Law for the New York State Bar Association from 1988 to 1989 and was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1992 to 1997.