David Marella -- One the Come Up

Today I was excited to be joined by David Marella, Senior M&A Associate at BakerHostetler. Always one for superlatives, I would like to recognize Marella as the first Ocean County native on the podcast. Something of a hometown hero, Marella began his education at Toms River East High School. As an undergraduate student, Marella experienced a change of pace at Rutgers University where obtained his bachelor’s in Economics and Political Science; he obtained his JD at Seton Hall Law School in 2015 where he graduated Cum Laude. David Marella began his legal career as a Corporate Associate at Gibbons P.C. in Newark, where he worked from 2016 to 2017 and then returned after a six-month stint in government service. In 2017, Marella served as an Advisor to the Executive Director of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis within the Executive Office of the President. He then resumed his corporate law practice at Gibbons before clerking for Paul B. Matey at the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 2019. After completing his clerkship, Marella returned to Gibbons as a Corporate Associate and remained there until 2021. He subsequently joined Squire Patton Boggs as a Corporate Associate in New York, where he worked for nearly three years before moving to BakerHostetler in 2024. He currently serves as a Corporate M&A Associate at BakerHostetler in New York, advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.