Mendel-Blumenfeld, LLP

Mark Mendel was born in Europe and moved to the United States as a child. He has practiced law in El Paso since 1981, mainly in the areas of business, tax and finance law. His business practice is focused on financing matters, including registered public offerings of debt and equity securities, private placements of offerings of small and large businesses, securitized lending transactions and large, offshore offerings of securities. He spends a significant amount of time on the representation of Mexican and other foreign individuals and business entities in financing and business transactions in the United States and elsewhere. In addition, a large part of his practice focuses as bond counsel and underwriters counsel in public and private offerings of municipal debt.

Since 1998, Mark has devoted a substantial part of his practice to representing Internet gaming companies, culminating with his representation of Antigua and Barbuda in its WTO dispute over cross-border gambling services with the United States.

Mark graduated magna cum laude with honors in politics from Washington & Lee University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and cum laude from Texas Tech School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the Tax-Exempt Financing Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association Section on Taxation. Mark is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.

Mark splits his working time between the office in El Paso and the Cork, Ireland office.