The Counts Company provides Legal Services tailored to your Business

Whether you have existing counsel and need to expand, or are looking for a change, our services will help you reach your business goals.

Mergers & Acquisitions

The firm provides legal advice to buyers, sellers, investors, shareholders and boards of directors, on every aspect of complex mergers, acquisitions, combinations, and divestitures. By focusing on the details of the transaction and understanding each client’s unique needs, the firm has consistently been able to maximize returns and reduce costs.

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The firm provides legal advice to buyers, sellers, investors, shareholders and boards of directors, on every aspect of complex mergers, acquisitions, combinations, and divestitures. By focusing on the details of the transaction and understanding each client’s unique needs, the firm has consistently been able to maximize returns and reduce costs.

The firm assists clients by analyzing, structuring, and planning each transaction and becomes directly involved in negotiations, due diligence, document preparation, closing and post-closing matters.

Regardless of whether the client is a buyer or a seller, the firm offers comprehensive support in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions and can help lay the foundation for smooth negotiations, meticulous due diligence, accurate document preparation, and a seamless closing process. The firm is always focused on each client’s success and provide comprehensive post-closing support to address any potential legal issues that may arise, ensuring a smooth transition and integration of the merged entities.

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The firm provides a broad array of legal services designed to accommodate the needs of real estate investors and associated professionals.  These services cover every aspect of the real estate industry from land acquisition to property development to leases and sales.

The firm helps buyers, sellers and lenders draft and negotiate sale agreements, leases, private placement memorandums and all types of associated contracts

The firm helps buyers, sellers and lenders draft and negotiate sale agreements, leases, private placement memorandums and all types of associated contracts, e.g., deeds, promissory notes, easements, construction contracts, maintenance contracts, etc.

The firm also provides legal advise to owners and investors who become embroiled in real estate disputes.  Finally, the firm helps assists investors in structuring and managing commercial entities specifically designed to hold, manage and control real estate assets.

Real Estate Services

The firm provides a broad array of legal services designed to accommodate the needs of real estate investors and associated professionals.

Concierge Legal Services

Our Concierge Legal Services revolve around the design and implementation of strategic initiatives aimed at increasing and perpetuating the success of our clients’ business interest and their owners’ individual wealth.

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Our Concierge Legal Services revolve around the design and implementation of strategic initiatives aimed at increasing and perpetuating the success of our clients’ business interest and their owners’ individual wealth.  The services provided under this program are designed to meet the needs of the busy executives and are provided on an as-needed, where-needed basis.

Mr. Counts serves as the personal attorney to numerous business owners and routinely provides guidance to them on their business activities.

In illustration of the scope of these services, Mr. Counts was retained by the owner of an oil and gas corporation to serve as legal counsel for a business venture in the country of Nigeria.  While there, Mr. Counts personally met with Nigeria’s former President, the Hon. Goodluck Jonathan, and his cabinet.

In another example, Mr. Counts was retained by a service company to serve as a member of a trade delegation dispatched to the country of Cameroon.  While there, Mr. Counts met with and briefed the country’s Minister of the Interior and Minister of Transportation.  Following the motto, “Have briefcase, Will travel” Mr. Counts actively seeks to provide legal services to business owners on a national and international basis.

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The firm serves as general counsel to a variety of Texas based businesses, including auto dealerships, construction companies, oil and gas service companies, medical providers and other business entities.

The firm’s personnel are intimately familiar with the formation and management requirements of Texas entities

We routinely provide advice to business owners on formation and management issues, including the preparation of employment contracts, service agreements, commercial leases and contracts concerning other business related transactions.

General Counsel Services

We routinely provide advice to business owners on formation and management issues, including the preparation of employment contracts, service agreements, commercial leases and contracts concerning other business related transactions.

About Mark Counts

Mark’s legal career began in 1999, when he was licensed by the State Bar of Texas.  Over the course of the next twenty-five years, Mark served as a commercial litigator in Harris, Montgomery, Galveston and Fort Bend Counties.  During this time, Mark developed a reputation for being an aggressive, hard-nosed, competent trial lawyer who was focused on finding pragmatic solutions to his commercial clients’ legal problems.  In 2025, Mark closed his litigation practice and he currently focuses on providing legal services exclusively to real estate investors and business owners.

Prior to entering private practice, Mark served on active duty in the U.S. Army.  He is a former member of the Infantry, Ordnance and Judge Advocate General’s Corps and has three military occupations skills (11C, 91B and 55A).  While in the Army, Mark was the labor and employment attorney for Fort Polk, Louisiana and a general counsel to Bayne Jones Army Hospital.  Mark also briefly served as an investigator for the U.S. Department of Defense and was responsible to investigate equal employment opportunity complaints brought under Title VII.

In 2009, Mark formed a private equity company focused on acquiring, improving, managing and selling real estate assets within the State of Texas.  Over the course of time, Mark steadily grew this company from one $60,000 rental home into a diverse, multimillion dollar commercial real estate portfolio which he currently manages.  Based on his own personal experience, Mark assists business owners with the acquisition, growth and management of their real estate holdings.

Mark was born in Richlands, Virginia and he attended Garden High School in Oakwood, Virginia. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnical Institute & State University (Va. Tech).  Mark is a graduate of the U.S. Army Infantry School and the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School.  For his military service, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, two Army Commendation Medals, the National Defense Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon and two Army Achievement Medals.  Mark qualified as a sharpshooter with an M16 (but is hell on wheels with an 81mm mortar tube).

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Mark graduated from South Texas College of Law in 1999 and from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School in 2000.  Mark is a former Langdell Scholar, a former Adjunct Professor at Upper Iowa University and Cy-Fair College and the recipient of six Phi Delta Phi academic achievement awards.

Mark is a licensed automobile dealer, a licensed general contractor, a licensed water distributor and an avid car collector.  Mark owns and assists in the operation of a self-storage facility (Oakwood Storage), a used car dealership (Speed Demon), an automotive repair facility (Bargain Brakes), and a water distribution company which holds the right to distribute La Dolcezzatm products.  In his limited spare time and as a testament to his great intestinal fortitude, Mark enjoys paying for the maintenance of a veritable fleet of vintage automobiles including a 1960 Dnepr motorcycle, 1965 VW Beetle, a 1974 VW Thing, a 1976 Porsche 914, a 1976 Triumph TR7 Victory Edition Coupe and a 1980 Triumph TR7 convertible.