Bosakowski, James A.

Mark Borden is a partner and former chair of the Corporate Practice Group. He joined the firm in 1976. His practice concentrates primarily in the areas of securities law, corporate finance and acquisitions.

Practice

Mr. Borden has over 35 years of experience in representing private and public companies. His public company clients include Airvana, Analog Devices, Avid, BJ's Wholesale Club, Idexx Laboratories, MKS Instruments, Red Hat, Sepracor, Starent Networks, Staples, State Street, Stream Global Services, Unica and Wright Express.

Mr. Borden has represented companies and underwriters in over 100 public offerings. Underwriters that he has represented include Goldman Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.

In the acquisitions area, Mr. Borden has extensive experience both in structuring acquisitions and in designing defenses against unsolicited takeovers.

Professional Activities

Mr. Borden has lectured at various seminars sponsored by MCLE and the Massachusetts Bar Association, on topics relating to public offerings, securities laws and takeover defenses. Mr. Borden served as a member of the subcommittee of the Boston Bar Association that drafted the Massachusetts Control Share Acquisition Act. He served on the special task force of the Boston Bar Association that drafted the Massachusetts corporations statute.

Honors and Awards

Mr. Borden was listed as a leader in the private equity field in the 2008 edition of Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers. He is recognized as a leader in the corporate/M&A and private equity: venture capital investment categories in the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. He is also recognized as one of Boston's top corporate lawyers in the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook for 2006 and 2007/2008. Mr. Borden is consistently recommended by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, and has appeared in the New England Super Lawyer (formerly "Massachusetts Super Lawyer") list, as published in Boston Magazine, since 2004. In 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012, Mr. Borden was named by Best Lawyers as Boston Corporate Lawyer of the Year. He was also listed as one of the world's leading merger & acquisition lawyers in the International Who's Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers 2010 and 2011.

Publications

Mr. Borden is co-author of "Start-up Companies – Planning, Financing and Operating the Successful Business," published by Law Journal Seminars Press.

Community Involvement

Mr. Borden is an Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.