Mark C. Bussey

Mark Bussey chairs the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, where he counsels clients on merger and acquisition transactions across a wide range of industries. 

Mark has represented leading public companies, privately held companies, private equity firms, and venture capital funds, including Newmont Corporation, J.M. Huber Corporation, CoorsTek, Inc., JLL Partners, and Foundry, on numerous mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, recapitalizations, reorganizations, and complex corporate matters. He has also advised investors, founders, and management teams on the investment, incentive equity, and governance understandings that define their business relationships. 

Mark has been named a “Leader in Their Field” for Corporate/M&A by Chambers USA. He has also been recognized as an Emerging Leader by The M&A Advisor and selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America by Woodward/White for Mergers and Acquisitions Law. He was named a Top Lawyer in Mergers & Acquisitions law by 5280 (2025). Mark joined Davis Graham after practicing in the corporate department of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Opera Colorado.

Representative Transactions

• Formation of the Nevada joint venture between Barrick Gold Corporation and Newmont Corporation, which combined Barrick’s and Newmont’s respective mining operations, assets, reserves and teams in Nevada to create the world’s largest gold mining complex 
• $7.6 billion acquisition of PDC Energy, Inc. by Chevron Corporation 
• $820 million acquisition by Newmont Corporation of the Cripple Creek & Victor gold mine from AngloGold Ashanti Limited 
• $700 million sale by Whiting Petroleum Corporation, GBK Investments and WBI Energy Midstream of North Dakota midstream assets to an affiliate of Tesoro Logistics 
• $525 million sale by Crescent Point Energy Corp. of its Uinta Basin upstream assets 
• Acquisition by J.M. Huber Corporation of Natural Soda LLC 
• Acquisition by CoorsTek, Inc. of the Lexington, Kentucky armor manufacturing facility of Avon Protection plc 
• Acquisition by ECG Management Consultants of MD Ranger’s physician contract benchmarking and analytics business