Mark Hobson is the partner in charge of the Miami office of Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP. He works closely with other members of HFK, including Linda Lerner in the New York office and Mike Halloran in the San Francisco and Jackson Hole offices.
Mr. Hobson is an experienced securities, corporate, and transactional lawyer licensed in Colorado and Florida. His legal work ranges from helping founders of startups or other entrepreneurs form their entity, raise capital, enter into joint venture projects or other contractual arrangements, to representing companies acquiring other companies or being sold.
During his career, Mr. Hobson has assisted clients in structuring and documenting mergers and acquisitions (including preparing and filing Premerger Notification Report Forms with the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission as required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 for large M&A deals that satisfy the applicable thresholds), complex purchase and distribution arrangements, commercial finance transactions, secured lending deals governed by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, private placements (including EB-5 projects), joint venture deals, asset-based lending matters, cross-border transactional matters, corporate governance matters, and intellectual property matters, including technology transfer arrangements.
Mr. Hobson’s experience before joining HFK in December 2018 has been broad and diverse. After completing his studies, he started his career in São Paulo, Brazil, where he worked in private practice and then in-house at Banco Citibank, N.A. After relocating to South Florida in November 1998, he worked for 12 years with the oldest law firm in Miami (over 250 lawyers) and then worked over 3 years with a boutique law firm in the heart of Miami’s financial district, before establishing his own firm in July 2014.
My Practice
Thought Leadership
Panels
Panel member of CLE program titled “Have You Heard of the Corporate Transparency Act Effective January 1? A Discussion of New Filing Requirements for Your Entity Clients,” held on December 18, 2023, sponsored by the Wyoming State Bar Business Law Section.
Panel member of CLE program titled “Implementing our Ethical Obligation to Assist Underserved Entrepreneurs” by the ABA Task Force on Underserved Entrepreneur Equality, held on September 7, 2023, at the ABA Business Law Section Fall Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
Panel member of CLE program titled “How Can You Help your Client Choose the Right Adventure? Navigating Your Options in Small Business Capital Raising,” held on April 28, 2023, at the ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
Panel Member of “Federal and Wyoming Securities Registration Exemptions,” held on September 16, 2022, at the Wyoming Annual State Bar Conference in Casper, Wyoming.
Moderator of Program titled “Basics of Private Investment Fund Formation,” held on April 14, 2018, at the ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
CLE program titled “Perfecting Your Security Interest Under UCC Article 9,” given at a seminar in Miami, Florida, held on July 19, 2005, sponsored by Lorman Education Services.
CLE program titled “Implications of Revised UCC Article 9 in Commercial Lending,” given at a seminar held in Miami, Florida, on June 26, 2002, sponsored by Lorman Education Services.
In the Media
Published articles
“Sifting through the Corporate Transparency Act: Key Elements to Understand,” published on April 20, 2024, in the ABA Business Law Today.
“Touring through Traditional Fiduciary Law, the DGCL, Delaware Corporate Law, and Delaware’s Support for Private Ordering with Vice Chancellor Laster,” published on June 6, 2023, in the ABA Business Law Today.
“How Small-Fund Advisors Can Mitigate Money-Laundering Risks,” published on March 13, 2018 in the ABA Business Law Today.
“Election Impact on Exempt Offerings and Private Fund Advisers,” published on December 21, 2016 in the Daily Business Review, an ALM Publication.
“Good-Faith Determinations under the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program,” published on May 15, 2020 in the ABA Business Law Today.
Education
J.D., with honors
The Florida State College of Law
B.S. summa cum laude, Marketing and Management
Tampa College
LL.M., cum laude, International, European & Comparative Law
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Admissions
Colorado State Bar
Florida State Bar
Affiliations
American Bar Association
Member, Business Law Section (BLS)
Member, ABA BLS Middle Market & Small Business Committee, Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee, and Mergers and Acquisitions Committee.
Former Editor-in-Chief (5 years) of Newsletter for Middle Market & Small Business Committee of ABA Business Law Section
Member, ABA Task Force on Offering and Trading of Tokenized Securities
Member, ABA Task Force on preparing Short-Form Asset Purchase Agreement and Short-Form Stock Purchase Agreement
Florida Bar
Member, Business Law Section