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Marie Mast
Associate | Philadelphia
Marie Mast

Marie Mast focuses her practice on corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on private equity transactions and M&A, as well as capital markets and general corporate matters.

Ms. Mast has experience advising private equity firms and strategic companies on transactions across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, food and beverage, industrials, technology, education and life sciences.

Ms. Mast joined Dechert as a summer associate in 2016. 

  • Quest Diagnostics, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, in connection with its proposed acquisition of OhioHealth’s outreach laboratory services business.
  • One Equity Partners and Anvil International, LLC in connection with the merger of Anvil International with Smith-Cooper International.
  • Blackboard Inc., a leading global educational software company and an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners, in connection with the sale of its Transact business unit to Reverence Capital Partners.
  • Edge Therapeutics (NASDAQ: EDGE), a U.S.-based biotechnology company, in connection with its merger with PDS Biotechnology Corporation, a privately-held, clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy company.
  • One Equity Partners in its acquisition of Ernest Health Holdings from Guiding Health Management Group and Medical Properties Trust.
  • OraSure Technologies, Inc. in its sale of its cryosurgical business to CryoConcepts LP.
  • Cerberus Capital Management in a strategic investment in Lighthouse Autism Center, a leading provider of center-based autism behavioral health services for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
Services
    • Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 2009, with distinction
    • Temple University Beasley School of Law, J.D., 2017, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif; Lead Research Editor, Temple Law Review
    • Pennsylvania
    • Member, Executive Committee, Business Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association
    • Member, Board of Directors of Lifecycle WomanCare