Mark A. DeFeo
Mark DeFeo helps private equity funds to successfully complete buy-outs, growth equity financings, exits, and other significant transactions. Mark is regarded as a trusted advisor to clients throughout the lifecycle of their investments, adept at handling the acquisition or equity investment on the front-end of a transaction and the exit on the back-end. Mark provides further value to clients by helping in the advancement of the business as it grows through add-on acquisitions, equity financings, and other significant inflection points, while also serving as outside general counsel for the portfolio companies.
Mark also counsels portfolio companies, search funds and family offices on complex M&A and general corporate matters.
Mark has worked on transactions in a variety of sectors, including software, tech-enabled services, cybersecurity, healthcare IT, financial services, consulting, and business services.
Recognition
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers
Representative Engagements
- Dundon Capital Partners in various pickleball-related transactions, including PPA Tour’s merger with Major League Pickleball.
- BV Investment Partners in numerous acquisitions and related add-ons in the business services, security and software industries.
- Century Equity Partners in the acquisition and sale of insurance technology solution providers.
- Cove Hill Partners in acquisitions, spin-out and recap transactions.
- Mainsail Partners in several software and technology platform-focused acquisitions and exits.
- Riverside Partners in various acquisitions and sales in the SaaS, business services, and healthcare technology industries.
- Serent Capital in several acquisitions, growth equity transactions and exits in healthcare IT and services, software and tech-enabled services.
- Summit Partners in a number of growth equity financings in healthcare and e-commerce, as well as the sale of healthcare IT company to private equity buyer.
- Sunstone Partners in multiple platform acquisitions, add-on transactions and roll-up strategies across cybersecurity, healthcare services and tech-enabled services.
- Sverica Capital in multiple acquisitions of software-focused companies.
Professional and Community Involvement
- Member of the Boston Bar Association
Education & Credentials
- Boston College Law School
- JD, 2009, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
- Note Editor, Boston College Law Review
- Boston College
- BA, 2006, summa cum laude
Admissions
Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, Massachusetts
Mark's Insights
Announcements 05.01.2024
Serent Capital Invests in Medical Informatics Engineering
Choate represented Serent Capital in a growth investment in Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE), a provider of electronic health records and health IT software.