Mark T. Schieble is a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, resident in the firm’s San Francisco office. He is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group and Finance Practice Group, as well as the firm’s Health Care Industry Team.
In the tax field, Mark specializes in exempt organization matters and tax-exempt finance, but he also regularly practices in the areas of joint ventures, partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. While Mark’s initial experience in the finance field was entirely from the tax perspective, serving as special tax counsel, he began serving as general finance counsel on finance matters some years ago and now regularly serves in the roles of bond counsel, lender’s counsel and borrower’s counsel on a variety of matters, but particularly in financings for health care providers, senior housing providers and low-income housing sponsors.
Mark is a frequent speaker and writer on tax and finance matters. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Tax Section, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. Mark has been Peer Review Rated as AV Preeminent®, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and he was recognized in 2011 by the Legal 500 for his work in domestic tax.
Mark is a graduate of Temple University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1980), where he was associate editor of the Temple Law Quarterly, and the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., with honors, 1975). He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1980 and the California Bar in 1984.