Bio

Clients look to Mark Manning to achieve the best results in their most complex commercial transactions and internal business and legal issues. He regularly leads merger and acquisition transactions on behalf of both buyers and sellers, providing him with deep insight into what drives both sides of a deal - a perspective that helps him efficiently facilitate practical solutions to issues that keep deals from getting done. Mark Manning is a partner in Burns & Levinson’s Corporate, M&A, Venture Capital & Private Equity, and Intellectual Property Groups. He negotiates and closes growth capital financings, both debt and equity, representing businesses and capital sources. Mark helps clients commercialize their intellectual property and leverage the intellectual property of others on a global basis and in all market segments. He also assists clients with crafting appropriate ownership and usage rights for jointly developed IP. Mark began his career in private practice representing businesses in a broad range of transactions, regulatory compliance and general corporate matters. He was subsequently manager of business and legal affairs at Scitex America Corp. (now part of Kodak), where he was responsible for the legal oversight of the company’s direct and indirect distribution channels (domestic and Latin American), licensing, equipment financing, commercial leases, product marketing, customer dispute resolution and governance matters.