A partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Groups, Jeff focuses on a range of corporate matters.

Mr. Marell’s broad merger and acquisition expertise includes both public and private mergers and acquisitions. Representative transactions include:

• The Special Committee of Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. in a merger between Winn-Dixie and BI-LO LLC in which BI-LO, a portfolio company of Lone Star Funds, will acquire Winn-Dixie in a transaction valued at approximately $560 million;
• Wendy’s/Arby’s Group’s sale of its Arby’s Restaurant Group to Roark Capital;
• Preferred Sands Holdings in a recapitalization in connection with its acquisition of nearly all of the assets of Winn Bay Sand, creating the one of the largest North American frac sand producers;
• Combination of Virtu Financial and Madison Tyler Holdings, both technology driven proprietary trading and market making firms, along with a strategic growth investment in support of the transaction by Silver Lake Partners;
• ITC Deltacom’s sale to EarthLink in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $516 million;
• AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.’s $220 million acquisition of Medfinders;
• Russell Hobbs, Inc.'s combination with Spectrum Brands, forming a new global consumer products company with an estimated $3 billion in annual revenues;
• Prime Outlets Acquisition Company and affiliated entities’ $2.3 billion disposition of their outlet shopping center business to Simon Property Group, Inc.;
• Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. Ltd.’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Sepracor Inc.;
• Ericsson’s acquisition of Nortel Networks's CDMA and LTE businesses for $1.13 billion;
• Triarc Companies, Inc.'s $2.34 billion acquisition of Wendy’s International;
• Harbinger Capital Partners' sale of General Chemical Industrial Products to Tata Chemicals Limited for over $1 billion;
• Salton, Inc.'s acquisition of the global pet products division of Spectrum Brands for $915 million (terminated);
• the sale of Quellos Holdings’ fund of funds business to BlackRock, Inc. for up to $1.7 billion;
• Farallon Capital Partners’ $7.9 billion acquisition of Mills Corporation in partnership with Simon Property Group;
• Farallon Capital Partners’ $1.8 billion acquisition of the manufactured home business of Affordable Residential Communities;
• Nextel Communications, Inc.’s $70 billion merger of equals with Sprint Corporation;
• SpectraSite Communications’ $11.3 billion merger with American Tower Corporation;
• the sale of Citigroup’s Fleet Leasing business to General Electric Capital Corporation for $1.3 billion; and
• EnCana Corporation’s $2.7 billion acquisition of Tom Brown, Inc., an independent energy company engaged in natural gas exploration and production.

In addition, Mr. Marell has advised various private investment funds in numerous investments in private and public companies, mezzanine debt financings and portfolio company merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Marell’s private equity clients include BlackCreek Capital, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Corporate Partners II Limited, Equifin Capital Partners, Farallon Capital Management, Harbinger Capital Partners, InterMedia Partners, and Lazard Frères Real Estate Investors LLC.

Mr. Marell was featured in April, 2011 on This Week in the Boardroom discussing “love letter” takeovers and has also participated in numerous M&A and private equity conferences as well as CLE courses. Additionally, Mr. Marell has co-authored two articles published in The Deal magazine titled “The Fine Print” and "In Search of Certainty: New, Limited Optionality in M&A Deals." His work has earned him recognition as a leading M&A lawyer in the United States by Legal 500.

Mr. Marell was a member of the George Washington Law Review.