Mark joined BWB in 2010 as Head of the Corporate & Commercial Department. Before joining BWB he was a corporate partner at City law firm Fox Williams LLP who he joined in 1996, becoming a partner in 1998. Mark trained and qualified in 1989 as a corporate solicitor at Bircham, Dyson Bell.

Mark has more than 20 years experience of advising clients on corporate transactional work. Clients commend Mark for his “maestro-like control of the [transaction] process”, and for being "absolutely first rate". He is also valued by clients for avoiding ‘the usual "shades of grey" advice and for making firm recommendations’.

Type of Work
• Corporate law, concentrating on both cross-border and domestic private company transactions including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity
• Joint ventures, shareholder agreements and group structures
• Corporate fundraising - financial services and financial promotions and capital markets (equity), mostly AIM
• Issues relating to shareholder disputes and share rights held by senior executives

Recent Work
• Acting for investee company on its private equity fundraising of £4.1m
• £90m balance sheet refinancing and reduction of capital
• Co-counsel for Toronto Listed company in connection with its multi-million dollar acquisition of European business and assets
• Acting on £2M acquisition of a technology company
• Acting for the sellers on the sale of advertising agency
• Acting for a well-known independent school in connection with the corporate aspects of an international joint venture and the worldwide franchise arrangements for schools outside the UK and China
• Acting for aviation charter and brokerage business on its private equity fundraising
• Acting for Nomad on the £14m placing and acquisition of an AIM listed client

Publications and Talks
• Mark has written a number of articles that have been published online and in the national press on such issues as shareholder disputes/agreements and raising capital
• For the American Bar Association he has undertaken key speaking roles on international private company M&A (Atlanta) and joint ventures (Paris). Mark also chaired a conference in Dallas on comparative alternative investment markets
• He has organised and regularly spoken at seminars on raising capital for an e-business; exits for ebusinesses; and investing in tech focused businesses. He has also spoken as an outside speaker on international mergers & acquisitions

Pro Bono Work
• Mark is executive director of the national children’s charity, Starlight Children’s Foundation, that grants wishes for terminally and critically ill children