Mark L. Kaufmann

Mark has handled the following select matters:

• Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS) in the US$4.4 billion sale of United States Cellular Corporation’s (NYSE: USM) wireless operations and select spectrum assets to T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), including a combination of cash and up to approximately US$2 billion of assumed debt.
• A global courier delivery services company in connection with the modification of its relationships with several of its offshore application development and maintenance vendors.
• A market leader and global supplier of advanced micro-acoustic solutions and specialty components in connection with its acquisition and use of certain technology and services from third-party providers as well as its relationships with significant customers.
• One of the largest professional services companies in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, in connection with the licensing of several third-party tools and software to be used in connection with various solutions to be developed and then offered by the company to its clients.
• A mutual insurance holding company in connection with the renegotiation of an existing information technology services relationship with its third-party provider.
• A national retailer in connection with the procurement of financial, accounting and information technology hardware, software and services from global third-party providers.
• A privately owned hedge fund sponsor in connection with its acquisition and use of certain technology and services from third-party providers.
• OneAmerica Financial Partners with the long-term outsourcing of its IT infrastructure and operations areas to a third-party service provider. The outsourcing included data center services, mainframe, servers, Wintel services, open systems, data and voice networks, desktop, platform and software services.
• A leading Wall Street bank and its affiliates in outsourcing the storage and retention of all of its electronic communications worldwide so that it could comply with regulatory requirements.
• Aon Corporation with all intellectual property and transition services aspects of its sale of Combined Insurance Companies of America to the Ace Group of Companies.
• Bill Me Later, Inc. in all intellectual property aspects of its sale to eBay Inc.
• eBay Inc. in all intellectual property aspects of its sale of Skype.
• Served as lead commercial IT counsel on nearly 100 transactions for the captive processing and administrative entity of a leading insurance company in its acquisition and use of software and services from third-party technology service providers.
• Currently assisting a publicly traded company in negotiating an agreement with a third-party to relaunch through the use of a new platform, host and continue to develop, maintain and support its commercial website.

Mark has assisted a wide variety of clients with respect to outsourcing- and data center-related matters, including: Blackrock, BNP Paribas, Conseco, Dover Corporation, First Data Corporation, First Republic Bank, Morgan Stanley, OneAmerica, The Options Clearing Corporation, Securian Financial, WebBank and Western Union. He has assisted the following clients with intellectual property and technology issues in the M&A, PE and venture contexts: Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., Aon Corporation, Bill Me Later, Inc., eBay, First Data Corporation, Formica Corporation, General Electric Company, KPMG, Tribune Company, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Sara Lee, SXC Health Solutions, Inc., Synchrony Financial, Tellabs, Tyson Foods, Inc., Walgreen Co., and West Corporation.

Mark is a member of the American, Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations. He has also served since 2007 as a board member of Lumity, a Chicago-based non-profit that helps inner city teens and young adults prepare for lifelong STEM careers.