Mark Pihlstrom's practice involves working with clients on a variety of corporate and business matters in industries including health care, medical technology, telecommunications, cable, manufacturing and distribution, and professional sports.

Mark has experience with many types of transactions, including mergers, stock- and asset-based transactions, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures.

Representative transactions in which Mark has had significant responsibility include the following:

• Sale of General Mills bread-crumb business to Kraft
• Merger of Axolotl with Ingenix
• Sale of Ingenix PowerTrak business to Mitchell International
• Acquisition of CCB coding business by Ingenix
• Acquisition of SuperLawyers® by Thomson Reuters
• Various § 363 bankruptcy acquisitions
• Acquisition of PPC Worldwide by OptumHealth
• Sale of water division of Gambro
• Merger of CHF Solutions, Inc. with Gambro
• Sale of Schroeder Milk to Agropur
• Merger of Gearworks with Xora
• Sale of Minnesota Swarm professional lacrosse team by Minnesota Hockey Ventures Group, LP
• Merger of Smithway Motor Xpress Corp. with Western Express Inc.
• Acquisition of GeoLogic Solutions, Inc. by XATA Corporation
• Acquisition of business of Beck/Arnley Worldparts Corp. by Uni-Select USA, Inc.
• Add-on acquisition of El-Tronic Precision, Inc. by Remmele Engineering, Inc.
• Sale of certain business lines of The Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters)
• Sale of food distribution business of Trudeau Distributing Company to Arbor Investments
• Sale of manufacturing and wholesale jewelry business of Aurafin LLC to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
• Equity investment in MSP Corporation by Hunt Growth Capital L.P.
• Equity investment in Higher Dimension Materials Inc. by In-Q-Tel Inc.
• Leveraged buyout of Production Services Associates by Norwest Equity Partners
• Leveraged buyout of Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation by Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison Incorporated
• Corporate reorganization of the Holiday Companies
• Acquisition of Red Rooster Auto Stores by Uni-Select USA, Inc.
• Sale of gas and electric utility assets by Citizens Communications Company, including multiple $100 million to $250 million divestiture transactions
• Acquisition, joint venture and exchange transactions by Time Warner Cable, including approximately $2 billion like-kind exchange of cable television systems and creation of Texas Cable Partners with TCI Communications (now Comcast Corporation)

Civic Activities

• KidsFirst Scholarship Fund, chairman, board of directors
• The Blake School – Alumni Association, president

Presentations

• The Lay of the Land
  MedTech Investing Conference, Moderator, Minneapolis (May, 2010)

Legal Updates

• The 411 on 363 Bankruptcy Sales: A Corporate Counsel's Guide
  Minnesota Lawyer–In House Counsel (December, 2009)
• Private-Company Board Composition–Three Important Considerations
  Excellence Newsletter (Fall, 2009)