Bio

Mark Whatley is a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s corporate advisory business in New York. He is a highly experienced advisor to companies worldwide and has significant experience representing corporate clients and special committees on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising alternatives, and restructuring transactions. Since joining Evercore, he has helped to develop a global, industry leading Transportation and Infrastructure investment banking franchise and has primarily focused on the shipping and aviation industry verticals. At Evercore, Mr. Whatley has advised on many large corporate M&A transactions, and global business and capital structure restructurings. In addition, Mr. Whatley continues to advise clients on capital raising transactions and has extensive capital markets experience representing clients on over 50 public and private transactions for equity, equity-linked and high yield, including providing structuring advice on many of the existing shipping Master Limited Partnerships. Mr. Whatley began his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. and joined Evercore in 2009. While at Merrill Lynch, Mr. Whatley helped develop the Gaming, Leisure and Transportation Group into a market leader of advisory and underwriting services across industry verticals. Over his 10+ year career he has advised on over 100 successful transactions aggregating more than $50 billion in transaction value. Mr. Whatley is a Board Member of The 52nd Street Project, a NYC non-profit organization, and a Member of the Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin’s Masters of Science in Finance Program at the McCombs School of Business. He received his B.A. in Economics and Finance from Trinity University and his M.B.A. from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.