Mark Graffagnini JD

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Biography

Mr. Mark Graffagnini serves as Partner at Callais Capital Management. He served as Board Member at Society Brands. He is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Cara Stone. He has experience representing public and private companies in merger and acquisition transactions, equity and debt securities offerings, venture capital transactions, and corporate governance matters. Mark is also an experienced litigator and has represented individuals in personal injury actions (including workers' compensation), consumer protection claims, and large businesses in multi-national litigation. Mark is an active member of the Louisiana Economic Development Department's Working Group on Capital Availability and the founder of the Louisiana Venture and Angel Capital Report, the only statistical analysis of venture and angel capital in the state of Louisiana. Mark is a mentor of Law Without Walls, a member of the Advisory Board of the L SBA's Justice Entrepreneur's Program, a mentor for the Transactional Boot Camp program at Tulane Law School, and a 2014 Super Lawyer in the field of Corporate/Securities Law. Following law school, Mark served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ivan L.R. Lemelle, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Mark worked at one of the nation's premier securities and corporate law firms in Silicon Valley prior to starting his own firm.