Mark W. Manning

Mark starts each client engagement by learning about the business, its history and industry, the key players, and those individuals’ objectives. “You can’t advise, assist, or take action for a client without understanding all of the internal and external dynamics at play,” Mark says. “Doing the work to gain that understanding allows me to bring all of my best my observations, experience, and perspectives to the situation as we work together toward the desired result.”

Mark enjoys advising clients on pivotal moments of their professional lives – a funding or a sale of their business, resolving a conflict that could otherwise severely impair their goals, and connecting them to new business partners or critical hires via his expansive network. His finely honed business acumen is the result of years of firm and in-house transactional experience, the many industries and verticals in which he’s worked, and the types of businesses he serves as well – including family owned, investor-backed, multiple owners, private equity-owned, and more.

Mark grew up in a small family business and credits his upbringing for his understanding of what it’s like to be the one responsible for the success or failure of the business and not having the ability to go home and leave that worry to someone else. It’s a driving factor in his commitment to his clients and achieving success in their transactions.

Among his work experiences before joining Burns & Levinson was managing the business and legal affairs at Scitex America Corp. (now part of Kodak), overseeing the company’s distribution channels, licensing, equipment financing, commercial leasing, product marketing, customer dispute resolution, and governance functions.

At Burns & Levinson, Mark is a hiring partner and serves or has served on multiple internal committees steering the future of the firm, including its DEI Board. Outside of work, Mark has held leadership positions in the alumni association of his alma mater, Clarkson University. He also has been a Board member, President and Chairman of a leading Boston metro area nonprofit, Dedham Community House, and now serves on the Strategic Planning Committee for Ursuline Academy.