Lawyers in England

Mark Abbott

Solicitor

Reeds Solicitors

Mark Abthorpe

Partner

Kilburn & Strode LLP

Mark Ashelford

Partner

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Mark Baker

Partner - Real Estate London

Weightmans LLP

Mark Baldwin

Mark's practice spans a broad spectrum of corporate tax work. His particular areas of expertise are the structuring of collective investment vehicles (particularly domestic and pan-European private equity and real estate funds) and associated carried interest and co-investment structures, real estate investment, development and finance and indirect tax (particularly VAT). He has advised on a number of strategic transactions for private equity houses. Mark is chairman of the BVCA Tax Committee and a member of the Tax Committee of the Association of Partnership Practitioners (APP). He regularly speaks and writes on a wide variety of tax topics.

Macfarlanes LLP

Mark Barker

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Mark Barley

Mark is a partner and specialises in commercial property disputes including possession claims, lease renewals, rent reviews, dilapidations and restrictive covenants, as well as the wider range of property issues such as adverse possession and squatters, restrictive covenants and rights of way. He also acts in property related professional negligence claims, having considerable experience of such claims against solicitors and surveyors. Mark conducts dispute resolutions through the County Court and High Court, The First Tier and Upper Tribunals and through arbitration. Mark also has an interest in riparian rights and issues around moorings, and in addition has acted for a number of landowners in connection with issues arising out of the Telecoms Code. He is qualified as a Higher Courts Advocate, and frequently uses mediation to resolve disputes. He is an experienced speaker on property issues.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Mark Barnett

Browne Jacobson LLP

Mark Beardmore

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Mark Beardsworth

Mark specialises in white collar crime and investigations. He holds a 25-year track record of successful representations of individuals and corporates in many major Serious Fraud Office investigations, including IKEA, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, LIBOR/EURIBOR, Forex, Independent Insurance, G4S Serco, Sweett Group, Barclays Qatar and Tysers Integro. He has also advised clients in relation to major prosecutions brought by the Financial Conduct Authority, HM Revenue and Customs, and the Financial Reporting Council. Mark has significant experience in conducting corporate internal investigations for clients that operate across a range of industries including financial services, education, energy and infrastructure and sports and retail. He advises corporates on governance, compliance, management systems and controls, as well as on implementing policies. Mark also advises in relation to risk and governance during key corporate events including M&A and distressed situations. Much of his work involves clients facing scrutiny internationally and in complex “parallel proceedings” involving civil and regulatory litigation. He is also the author and Editor of numerous books and articles including the successful ABA Publication “An International Guide to Corporate Internal Investigations”.

Signature Litigation LLP

Mark Beer OBE

Mark is a highly regarded commercial lawyer with considerable cross-border experience. He has been a judge; worked in-house; worked in private practice; built hedge funds; advised governments and run private- and public-sector organisations. Much of his career has been spent finding solutions, negotiating deals and developing commercial trust and confidence. Having lived for a number of years in the Middle East, and having worked across South Asia, Middle East and Africa, Mark is well connected with solid policy and multi-industry international experience dealing with stakeholders from the government, judiciary, regulators, legal and business communities, public and media across a number of geographies.

Keystone Law

Mark Beesley

Partner & Managing Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Mark Benham

Mark Benham is a Partner in the Real Estate team. Mark is an experienced property lawyer and has regional and national clients including national housebuilders, PLCs and care home providers. Mark advises developers and landowners generally on land development, strategic issues, and structuring transactions. Mark also advises on commercial landlord & tenant matters.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Mark Bentall

Senior AssociateMark handles UK, European, and international patent filing and prosecution work and also advises on design matters.

Reddie & Grose LLP

Mark Blois

Browne Jacobson LLP

Mark Bowman

Partner

Fieldfisher

Mark Braude

Partner

TLT

Mark Brown

Mark is a highly experienced litigator specialising in the leisure sector. He has acted for over 11 years on property litigation matters for major pub, restaurant, bar, late night venue and hotel owners and operators. Most recently Mark has been advising those in the pub sector on the major issues affecting it.

Freeths LLP

Mark Brown

Mark has over 25 years’ experience handling complex contract and tort disputes at all levels of the English courts and in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. Mark’s clients include corporations operating in industry sectors including life sciences/pharma, information technology and digital media. He is highly experienced in both court litigation and arbitration, and has particular skill in managing and resolving commercial disputes before they reach court or an arbitral tribunal. Mark’s disputes expertise in the life sciences sector runs across a variety of sector-specific contracts relating to IP-rich assets and highly technical subject matter, ranging from licences and collaboration agreements to supply and distribution contracts. He also experienced in product liability and misuse of confidential information disputes. His clients include several household name pharmaceutical companies. In the IT and digital media space, Mark has been engaged in resolving disagreements around IT contracts, computer gaming and social media platforms. The types of contentious issues Mark handles arise from breach of commercial and corporate transaction contracts, judicial review, misuse of confidential information and other torts, product liability, company and shareholder disputes. His cases often involve cross-border complexities, including issues of jurisdiction, applicable law, asset freezing and enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards. Mark runs Bristows' Groupe Juridique Francophone, which provides a full range of legal services to French and Francophone companies with commercial interests in the UK. He speaks fluent French and Italian. He is a member of The Association for International Arbitration.

Bristows LLP

Mark Brunton

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Mark Buckerfield

Mark is a Partner in the Private and Agricultural Property team specialising in non contentious agricultural and residential property matters such as farm sales and purchases, house sales and purchases, auctions, agricultural landlord and tenant matters, remortgages, the single farm payment scheme, easements and covenants.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Mark Buckley

Partner

Fladgate LLP

Mark Burch

Mark joined Weightmans in 2014 as the then Head of Commercial Recoveries. He has previously been an in-house lawyer at Barclays Bank plc, Head of Regional Debt Recovery for Eversheds and, prior to joining Weightmans, worked within the Debt team at Pannone. Mark has experience of handling secured and unsecured public and private sector volume debt recovery, particularly complex defended actions, but now specialises in the use of insolvency procedures (Winding up petitions and Bankruptcy petitions) to assist in the collection of debt. He also has considerable experience of marketing, client care and management issues associated with volume debt collection within law firms. Mark brought with him a very loyal commercial client base which includes the Radius Group of companies, Murray Metals Group companies, the NWF Group and companies within the Johnsons Group, all of whom he still acts for today. Mark also represents a number of debt collection agencies who are well known members of the Credit Services Association. He also acts for a number of local authorities who utilise his knowledge and expertise in insolvency to collect various taxes and other debts. Mark has been recognised as a leader in the field of debt recovery and noted as such in both The Legal 500 and The Chambers UK Guide. He has provided clients with training on all aspects of the cost-effective use of the legal process in the credit/collections arena. He has recently acted as an invited expert on a Liverpool BPC course, involving His Honour Judge Neil Cadwallader and District Judge Samantha Johnson.

Weightmans LLP

Mark Burgess-Smith

Mark Burgess-Smith joined Farrer & Co in 2020 as Senior Counsel in the Commercial Property team.

Farrer & Co