Mark Herndon Email & Phone Number

Toronto (Oakville), Ontario, Ca

Mark Herndon serves as Managing Director with Stillwater M&A Advisors (Stillwater Capital, Toronto) and leads the firm's buy-side acquisition advisory practice. Over the past 25 years, Mark’s M&A experience includes over 80 transactions ranging from $10 million to over $36 billion in enterprise value and with roles including executive committee, steering committee, transaction lead, due diligence lead, or integration lead and with deal-types including mergers, platform and add-on acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures across a variety of industry verticals.Mark’s prior roles include serving as Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council, which trained and certified over 7,500 executives in M&A and established best-in-class internal M&A capabilities for programmatic acquirers; serving as President of a transaction advisory firm that supported private equity, family offices and mid-market corporations with M&A buy-side and sell-side transaction services; and, serving as U.S. Region Leader for Merger and Acquisition Services with a global top-twenty consulting firm.Mark is the co-author of The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level, Third Edition (John Wiley/Jossey-Bass Publishers, July 2014).In addition to his business advisory work, Mark serves as a board director for various privately held companies and faith-based organizations. Mark and his family love the mountains in summer, going on food tours, and cheering for the Dallas Stars hockey team.

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The M&A Leadership Council is an educational consortium of global professional service firms, experts, and corporate practitioners in the art and science of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures. Over the past 14 years, the M&A Leadership Council and its partner organizations have trained over 7,500 executives, representing over 800 best-in-class companies from every major industry sector. The M&A Leadership Council actively supports corporate M&A practitioners through a variety of proprietary research initiatives and publications, online and onsite training programs, best practices; direct M&A services delivery engagements, and an industry-first certification for corporate M&A practitioners, the Certified M&A Specialist (CMAS®). As both a key partner and M&A service provider to the Council, and while serving as its Chairman, Mark principally led delivery of the organization’s professional services engagements for corporate acquirers; conducted original research and spearheaded development of thought leadership content which was published in the Harvard Business Review and other industry journals; trained corporate executives and their team members; managed the CMAS certification program; and equipped acquirers with the internal capabilities for successful programmatic acquisitions.

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While serving as President of M&A Partners (an exclusive sponsor of the M&A Leadership Council), Mark and his team of consultants were engaged by some of the most highly experienced corporate acquirers in multiple industries to help them overcome historical internal obstacles preventing them from consistently maximizing anticipated deal value from each acquisition. Common areas of focus included establishing and upgrading internal M&A capabilities, processes and operating models; and direct deal support for M&A strategy, due diligence, integration and change management.

While serving as President of this boutique transaction advisory firm, Mark supported private equity firms, family offices and privately-held mid-market companies with M&A buy-side and sell-side transaction services including strategy development and implementation; valuation; acquisition, distressed situation financing; due diligence; restructuring and workouts.

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Led M&A business in the U.S. Region for this global top 20 consulting firm. Practice included strategic targeting, due diligence and post-merger integration.

Bachelor Of Science, Agricultural Economics

Executive Mba