Wayne Mack

Wayne is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Caydan Capital Partners, a Boston based private equity firm that makes direct equity and debt investments on behalf of family offices and institutional investors. Wayne Mack is an experienced investment professional who has spent the last 20 years on the equity, debt and transactional sides of the investment business with particular focus on the media, healthcare and business services industries.  At Caydan, Wayne sits on the Board of its various portfolio companies and takes a lead role in structuring and negotiating various equity and debt financings. Previously, Wayne was a partner at Alta Communications, a Boston based private equity firm with over $1.5 billion of assets under management. Alta specialized in middle market media and telecommunications investments. Wayne also held numerous board of director positions, including, Galaxy Communications, L.P., NRG Media, LLC, Bluewater Broadcasting, LLC, Pan-American Outdoor, LLC, and JW Broadcasting, LLC. Prior to Alta, Wayne was senior foreign counsel at McDermott Will and Emery, one of the largest U.S. based international law firms. Wayne’s legal practice focused on leading U.S. and international private equity transactions, including debt and equity investments, tax structuring, leveraged buy-outs and recapitalization. Wayne also advised on-shore and off-shore hedge funds and private equity funds on fund formations, domestic and international tax issues, financial and reporting obligations. Wayne began his career in 1995 and was admitted as a partner of Damant Bostock, Inc., a South African law firm. At Damant Bostock, Wayne was involved in several high profile post-Apartheid transactions, including representing several bidding groups in a series of government directed privatization transactions and one of the first successfully completed PIPE transactions in South Africa.