Mark Gaffin, Cfa, Caia Email & Phone Number

Northbrook, IL, US

• SLS Capital Advisors is a boutique investment bank headquartered in Chicago. Our singular focus in financial advisory is on the unique challenges and opportunities facing middle market firms across the United States..
• Managing effective Sales Processes and Exits, involving sophisticated buyers, including strategic purchasers (operating companies), financial buyers (private equity groups, family offices, etc.) and.
• Deploying capital resources through prioritized organic growth and buy-side M&A programs
• Unlocking profit potential and effectiveness through business portfolio rationalization and divestiture
• Leading domestic and cross-border acquisitions
• Direct investing through family office and private equity platforms

Northbrook, IL, US

• Lead and execute client engagements for The Gaffin Group, an independent consulting firm that draws on a multi-disciplinary approach and deep experience to bring robust, fact-based solutions to leading middle market.
• Strategy – formulation of breakthrough client strategies encompassing both organic and inorganic (M&A) components that capitalize on the unique competitive advantages and resources of the specific client
• Corporate Finance – work directly with executive management teams to extend clients’ competitive advantages through an insightful, impactful corporate finance function (includes CFO advisory, treasury/capital markets.
• Mergers & Acquisitions – engaged on both buy-side and sell-side projects including commercial due diligence for acquirers and preemptive, value-enhancing programs for sell-side teams.
• Operations Rationalization and Performance Optimization – projects include complexity reduction, organizational design/decision making effectiveness, operating expense rationalization, and product line profitability.
• Corporate Development – design end-to-end solution for clients seeking to execute on M&A strategies to add capabilities, geographies, and customer segments to growing business portfolios; activities include.

Lead all aspects of Equity Sponsor Group for a $79 billion regional bank. Direct bank-wide initiatives to drive incremental revenue and earning assets through programs that differentially position Bank for winning leveraged finance opportunities with equity sponsors. Initiative drivers include: New Business Development – Originate deal flow by developing.

Buffalo, New York, US

• Director and Head of Second Lien Group
• Selected by Bank leadership to develop business case for second lien product group; subsequently appointed by bank management to lead the group upon its founding. Direct all aspects of Second Lien Group in Bank's Debt.
• Appointed to serve in consulting capacity to Bank’s Special Assets Group leading negotiations and restructurings on large distressed transactions with complex capital structures and multiple creditors and equity.

Boston, MA, US

• Case Team Leader (Boston, MA) Conducted commercial due diligence on over $3 billion in transactions for financial buyers during rotation with firm’s Private Equity practice, including screening and evaluating.
• Led three workstreams on critical turnaround cases at major retail and manufacturing clients in Australia – developing expedient short/medium term turnaround action plans, including communication plans for public.
• Led re-organization teams at financial services and pharmaceutical companies, using proven tools for efficient, decision-based organization design (e.g. RAPID) to streamline structures; yielded expense savings of 15 to.

• Co-led asset acquisition and market expansion team; key success was complete development of major new market from initial evaluation to the delivery of Term Sheets on over $175 million in real estate asset acquisition.
• Developed all industry studies, competitor analyses, and asset valuations in new and existing markets for investment banking community, private investors and firm’s partners
• Constructed and ran valuation models used in all acquisition opportunities

Mba, Finance, Strategy

Bba, Finance