Mark Harris is a partner in Blank Rome’s Finance group. For over 30 years, specialty finance companies, private credit funds, financial institutions, and related service providers have relied on Mark to guide them in structured finance and securitization transactions involving a variety of asset classes, including residential mortgage loans, automobile loans, leases and subscriptions, consumer receivables, timeshare receivables, structured settlements, life settlements, whole businesses and other financial assets. Mark has developed relationships with many key players in the industry, and he enjoys connecting them with his clients and potential clients.
Mark also represents specialty finance borrowers and lenders in connection with warehouse lines of credit, whole loan sales, participations, servicing and derivative transactions, strategic alliances, and corporate governance matters.
Mark’s transactional experience also includes mergers and acquisitions and general corporate finance transactions, including representation of issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of senior/subordinated debt securities and equity securities and representation of borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured commercial credit facilities.
Mark is nationally recognized in Chambers USA in Capital Markets: Securitization: Asset Backed Securities (ABS). Mark received the International Law Office Client Choice Award for Securitization and Structured Finance in Texas in 2013 and in the United States in 2011. He is regularly named to Best Lawyers in America© in the areas of securitization and structured finance law and banking and finance law and was listed as the 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” for his work in Securitization and Structured Finance Law in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
Outside the Firm
In his spare time, Mark enjoys traveling, attending musical and theatrical performances, appreciating architectural and interior design, exploring new restaurants, and playing the piano.