Overview
Emerging and established companies turn to experienced business lawyer Marco Materazzi to help them navigate the intricacies of mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and many other business matters.
His clients come from a range of industries, including health care, technology, manufacturing, real estate, and cannabis. Marco has extensive experience guiding clients through complex transactions at all stages of the business life cycle—from business structuring and entity formation to capital raising and commercial arrangements, and on to exit events, such as sale transactions, public offerings, and shareholder separations. His clients appreciate his focus on practical results, his technical know-how, and his strategic judgment.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Marco is a member of the Oregon and New York State bars, and regularly advises clients on both coasts. He collaborates with clients and colleagues to help entrepreneurs and investors structure and finance business ventures.
Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Marco was a shareholder at a boutique business law firm. Earlier in his career, he worked at leading national and international law firms, including three years at a global firm in London and Hong Kong and as in-house counsel for a multinational investment bank. Marco’s international experience continues to inform his ongoing work on cross-border transactions.
While attending law school, Marco worked as a legal intern for the American Civil Liberties Union, served as a teaching fellow, and taught legal principles to high school students. He is highly proficient in Spanish and Italian.
Outside of the office, Marco enjoys spending time with his family and friends, as well as fly fishing, skiing, soccer, and tennis.
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Experience
- Advised a health care technology start-up company from formation, through several rounds of debt and equity financing. Marco regularly advises clients across multiple industries in similar transactions.
- Guides technology, manufacturing, and cannabis businesses through acquisitions and dispositions via asset sales, equity sales, and statutory mergers.
- Regularly advises business partners on redemptions and similar business separations, in both friendly and hostile transactions.
- Advised a real estate development company through property acquisitions, bank and private investor financing, property development, and dispositions.
- Advised a multistate cannabis operator through formation, business entity structuring, equity- and debt-based financing transactions, multistate growth, implementation of equity compensation program for employees and service providers, and various business combinations and acquisitions. Marco regularly advises clients across multiple industries in similar transactions.
- Represented a publicly traded cannabis business operating in multiple U.S. states, as well as in Canada, Africa, and Europe. Marco advised the client through several rounds of capital raising, operational growth and regulatory compliance, an initial public offering in Canada, and multiple follow-on public offerings, including with respect to U.S. and cross-border securities law matters, and multiple U.S. and international acquisition transactions.
Recognition
- Super Lawyers, Securities & Corporate Finance, Business & Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions (2021 to Present)
Credentials
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (J.D., 2005)
- Cornell University (B.A., 1999)
Bar Admissions
- Oregon
- New York