Mark Hoenig

Mark Hoenig is a Tax partner in Weil’s Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits Department and is based in New York. He has extensive experience in all areas of corporate taxation, including corporate mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as corporate organizations, reorganizations and workouts.

Mr. Hoenig’s M&A experience has ranged from structuring and negotiating complex transactions, bankruptcies and work-outs, to internal corporate restructuring and planning in connection with the preservation and use of tax losses. Among Mr. Hoenig’s notable transactions are:

• AIG in the restructuring and sale of its insurance groups ALICO and AIA;
• Funds affiliated with Blackstone Tactical Opportunities (an affiliate of The Blackstone Group L.P.) in a strategic investment in The PMI Group, Inc. together with a commitment to provide working capital financing in exchange for warrants and certain other rights;
• GE Capital in its spin-off of Genworth Financial as well as its acquisition of the Transamerica Corporation business from AEGON NV;
• Interval Leisure Group in its $1.5 billion acquisition, via a Reverse Morris Trust transaction, of Vistana Signature Experiences following completion of the spin-off of Vistana from Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc.;
• Thomas H. Lee Partners and inVentiv Health, Inc. (n/k/a Syneos Health, Inc.), in THL’s sale of a 50% interest in inVentiv to Advent International, valuing inVentiv at $3.8 billion;
• Willis North America Inc. (a subsidiary of Willis Towers Watson PLC) in its $650 million senior unsecured notes offering.

Complementing his involvement in corporate taxation has been Mr. Hoenig’s concentration on not-for-profit organizations, having counseled tax-exempt and non-exempt organizations such as trade associations, universities, hospitals and foundations.

His experience in this area touches the entire life-cycle of an exempt organization, from formation to dissolution, and includes a unique expertise relating to commercial activity and business ventures conducted by these organizations.

Mr. Hoenig is co-chair of the Firm’s Not For Profit practice group, is a long-term member of the Firm’s Pro Bono Committee, has been an integral part of the Firm’s annual Symposium on Not-For-Profit Governance, and serves on a number of non-profit boards, including New Yorkers for Parks, The Jewish Education Project and Lawyers Alliance for New York.