Mark V. Purpura

Director

One Rodney Square
920 North King Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
302.651.7588 - direct
302.498.7588 - fax
purpura@rlf.com
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Assistant Contact

Jeanette Jennings
302.651.7552 - direct
jennings@rlf.com

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Mark Purpura enjoys a diverse commercial practice, focusing on complex transactions involving Delaware entities, as well as banking, trust and insurance matters. A director in the firm's Business Department, Mark has extensive experience counseling clients in transactional matters relating to Delaware limited liability companies, limited partnerships, general partnerships and statutory trusts. He works on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, entity formation (including private equity firm and investment fund formation), entity governance matters, dissolution matters, joint ventures and many different types of complex financing transactions. In connection with transactions or in operational matters, Mark advises directors and managers of limited liability companies and partners of partnerships on their fiduciary duties with respect to such entities. Mark also regularly renders legal opinions on matters of Delaware law in connection with transactions.

Mark also represents Delaware banks, trust companies, insurance companies and other nondepository financial institutions in transactional matters, including formation, governance, dissolution, mergers and acquisitions, other commercial transactions, the development of lending and other consumer finance programs, personal and corporate trust matters, and federal and state regulatory matters, including representation before Delaware state and federal regulatory authorities.

Professional and Community Activities

  • American Bar Association, Banking Law Committee
  • Equality Delaware Foundation, Chair 
  • Equality Delaware, Inc., Board of Directors

Professional Recognition

  • Chambers USA

Pro Bono Activities

  • Richards, Layton & Finger Protection from Abuse Order pro bono team, Chair
  • Delaware National Guard and Reserve Foundation, Inc., Pro Bono Counsel
  • AIDS Delaware, Inc., Director and Secretary

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Education

  • J.D., with honors, University of North Carolina School of Law, North Carolina Banking Institute, Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, Millard S. Breckenridge Award in Taxation, 1998
  • B.S., Business Administration, Financial Analysis, magna cum laude, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, 1995

Admitted to Practice

  • Delaware
  • United States Supreme Court