Marc R. Baluda focuses his practice on transactions and financings involving privately held, middle-market and emerging growth companies seeking liquidity. Marc has wide-ranging experience handling strategic acquisitions and spinoffs, private sponsor and institutional buyer transactions, with a particular emphasis on employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) transactions. A large part of Marc's practice involves advising maturing companies with respect to their increasingly complex capital structures. He also represents private equity funds in their acquisition and recapitalization of portfolio assets, as well as banks and other financial institutions deploying capital. Foreign investors and conglomerates seek Marc's counsel in relation to acquisition strategies involving privately held entities in the United States.

In addition to this transaction-based practice, Marc advises clients post transaction in the conduct of their ongoing operations. His clients include directors, officers and trustees seeking to comply with corporate, partnership and ERISA fiduciary duties.