Mark White is a founding partner of White Summers Caffee & James LLP (formerly White & Lee), and leads the firm’s international practice. Mark represents emerging growth, mid-stage and mezzanine stage companies and investment funds on all matters relating to the formation, financing, growth and liquidity of technology-based enterprises. Over the span of 20 years Mark has represented companies in well over 500+ financings and over 200+ acquisitions. He represents and advises companies on a wide variety of transactional matters, including business and legal issues as they pertain to complex strategic and venture financings, acquisitions, and licensing and distribution arrangements. Mark’s practice principally covers corporate, technology, financing and corporate partnering matters for a wide variety of private and public company clients. He regularly advises companies on strategic positioning, business model and revenue generation issues, the preparation of investment materials and presentations, and the structure of complex corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, divestitures, consolidations and commercial partnerships. Mark also represents investment funds on formation issues and represents investors in making portfolio investments.
Notable company clients include Tesla Motors, Hotmail, Prezi, Instana, Orbit Beyond, Tiveni, Defonce Chocolatier & SEMI. Global Accelerator clients include Silicon Catalyst (US-semiconductors), Bootstraps Labs (US-AI), Impact Hub - Belgrade (South East Europe), Falcon X (Indian-based companies), Unicorn-Africa & Food System 6 (food tech companies). US venture capital and corporate venture clients include Motus Ventures, Denso, FinaVentures, NEA, Foundation Capital, Doll Capital Management, Leap Frog Ventures. International venture capital clients include Sunstone Capital (Denmark), Day One Ventures (Hungary), Kibo Ventures (Spain), Enveready (Spain), Alabaster (Vietnam), Joint Poland Investment Fund (Poland), Creandum (Sweden), Platform Capital (Africa).
Mark is the founder of WhiteSpace X which is a global network of accelerators with facilities currently in Silicon Valley, Budapest, Stuttgart, Lagos and Mexico City - and he is the founder of WhiteSpace Intelligence which is a strategy consulting firm. Mark is also a founder and Board member of Aspenify (enterprise software), he is Chairman of Slash (online ecommerce platform for beds), and CEO of Armadillo (medical networking products.
Mark has written numerous papers on matters affecting pre-public companies and investors and has spoken on these topics in seminars and conferences organized by IE Business School (Madrid), Technologico de Monterrey (Mexico), Spain Tech Center, the SV Forum, the Northern California Association of Harvard Business School, the International Angels Institute, the Asian Business Association, the EDA Consortium and other groups. Mark has also spoken on these topics in Spain, Hungary, Poland, Africa, Israel, Mexico, Singapore, the People's Republic of China, Malaysia, Australia, and Canada. Mark is also regularly invited to be a judge in technology company competitions globally and in the United States. He is has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2007, 2010, 2011, and each year from 2013 - 2019 by Super Lawyers magazine (independent research by Law & Politics).
Prior to forming White Summers, Mark formed two other law firms: White & Altman, and the firm of Carr, DeFilippo, White & Ferrell. Mark started his legal career as an attorney in the Silicon Valley offices of Cooley Godward and Fenwick & West. Prior to his legal career, Mark founded and worked as the Managing Director of the International Trade division of the Harper Group, a Fortune 500 company - and was the founder and Int’l President of Campamericana, a global travel operator based in Brussels, Belgium.
Mark plays golf, and he is a runner and oarsman.
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