Mark has over 30 years of national experience representing clients in property tax assessment, valuation, and condemnation matters, transactions, and controversies. He represents energy, utility, technology, commercial, manufacturing, and industrial clients in acquiring, developing, and operating facilities while effectively managing their state and local property taxes and maximizing economic incentives.
Mark assists clients with the valuation of complex facilities and property, including portfolios, for purposes of property tax assessment challenges, M&A transactions, and with state and local property tax management. He negotiates agreements and litigates matters to provide long-term certainty and solutions with respect to property tax. He has represented clients on property tax matters in multiple state and federal courts as well as before various state and local administrative agencies, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax savings across a wide spectrum of energy, utility, manufacturing, commercial, and industrial real properties. Mark also assists clients with due diligence and issues concerning compliance with state and local taxes for potential purchases and bids on energy assets.
Additionally, Mark assists energy, public utility, pipeline, and commercial companies in state and federal eminent domain proceedings, including the appropriate valuation of the condemned property.