Mark C. Bussey

Mark Bussey chairs the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice 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 joined Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP after practicing for three years in the corporate department of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York.

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
• Option to joint venture transaction between Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc. and Nuton LLC, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto
• Asset exchange transaction between i-80 Gold Corp. and Nevada Gold Mines LLC
• Multiple royalty portfolio sales by Newmont Corporation
• Numerous acquisition and sale transactions by JLL Pioneer, including rollup acquisitions of quarry and distribution assets, the divesture of its civil construction division, fleet acquisitions and financings, the divestiture of its quarry business and the sale of its distribution business
• Numerous growth investments by Copley Equity Partners and add-on acquisitions across its portfolio
• Numerous early-stage investments by Foundry in technology startup companies
• Numerous acquisitions, sales, financings and project development transactions by Poudre Valley Capital
• Numerous commercial property management and hotel management business acquisitions and joint ventures for clients in the real estate and hospitality industries, including Lowe Enterprises, Destination Residences and Sage Hospitality Group

Community Involvement

Mark is a member of the Board of Directors of Opera Colorado, where he serves as Treasurer and Chair of the Board’s Finance Committee. He previously served as a member of the Steering Committee for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Development Committee and as co-chair of the Strategic Priorities Team, which was focused on development efforts in support of the Museum’s Strategic Plan.