Avocats – England

Mark Byrne

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Mark Callaghan

Mark is a Senior Associate at Littler and advises on the full range of employment law matters, with a particular focus on clients who have international operations and/or face multi-jurisdictional employment law challenges. He particularly enjoys finding solutions to knotty employee relations issues regarding (amongst other things) performance, redundancies, disciplinaries and grievances, and post-termination restrictions. His advice is pragmatic and empathetic.

Littler

Mark Calverley

Bevan Brittan LLP

Mark Carter

HCR Law

Mark Challis

Partner (Head of Dept)

Broadfield Law UK LLP

Mark Chapman

Mark leads the Biotechnology team at Carpmaels & Ransford. Mark’s impressive Biotech-only practice focusses on the rapid and effective building of commercially valuable European patent portfolios for small and medium-sized clients. Mark enjoys devising and implementing pragmatic drafting, filing, prosecution and defence strategies for the European Patent Office, in close collaboration with his long-standing clients. Mark also has a proven track record in co-ordinating large global patent portfolios for the firm’s clients, most notably Ionis Pharmaceuticals. Mark works closely with clients to devise family and portfolio-wide filing and prosecution strategies, and to implement these strategies across large numbers of cases in a variety of territories, minimising the burden on the client team. Mark has very substantial experience of both pre-grant (examination and appeal) and post-grant (opposition and appeal) proceedings before the European Patent Office, as well as abundant experience prosecuting cases before the UK Intellectual Property Office. This has resulted in an enviable reputation for obtaining and defending broad early claims to important new Biotech innovations, including for important cases originating from leading global academic institutions, including Stanford University. Mark also regularly advises clients on freedom to operate and enjoys working closely with the firm’s Dispute Resolution and Transactions teams to provide clients with holistic IP advice. Mark has been centrally involved in the filing and prosecution of many European patents on antisense therapeutics, especially for Ionis Pharmaceuticals, including those covering Kynamro® (mipomersen) and Spinraza® (nusinersen). Recently, Mark has been pivotal to the successful prosecution and defence of key patents on an adult adipose stem cell product. Mark also has detailed knowledge of current commercial non-invasive pre-natal testing (NIPT) methods including Verinata Health’s verify® test, having prosecuted and defended multiple patents in this area, including Stanford University’s ‘Quake’ patent estate. IAM Patent 1000, 2023 recognise Mark as “a skilled operator at the EPO and has particular acumen obtaining and defending broad early claims to important new biotech innovations.”

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Mark Charter

Partner.

Thrings LLP

Mark Chick

Mark heads up the Landlord and Property team

Bishop & Sewell LLP

Mark Clinton

Consultant

Irwin Mitchell

Mark Cook

Mark is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial team. Mark's work includes private company mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate reorganisations, investments and fundraisings, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, LLP and partnership arrangements and company and contract law issues. He has experience of AIM and main market listing and fundraising work and has advised on all aspects of the public company regulatory framework. Mark has worked on a number of cross-border transaction and has extensive experience in a range of sectors including food & drink, health and social care, manufacturing, technology and consumer goods.

Wilsons

Mark Cooper

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Mark Cornelius

Mark deals with all aspects of non-contentious commercial property including landlord and tenant work, acquisitions and disposals, development, option agreements and secured lending. Mark’s clients range from private investors, developers and pension funds to restaurateurs, hotel operators and retailers. Mark offers a first-class service to his clients keeping them abreast of progress throughout by clear, prompt and personable communication. His speed of response and pragmatic approach allied with his commercial awareness ensures that transactions are concluded within a client’s desired timeframe and on the best possible terms.

Quastels LLP

Mark Crabtree

Mark has worked in the real estate field for 35 years. Mark has extensive experience of commercial property law, especially disposals and acquisitions, acting for lenders, estate management and landlord and tenant matters. He acts for owners, and investors who range from multi-nationals to smaller regional businesses. He has particular expertise in the licensed and leisure industry and acts for several of the major pubcos. Mark is known for his efficient, commercial and pragmatic advice. Mark regularly has to act on transactions that have very tight timescales and will work with the other side to ensure the transaction is completed to everyone’s satisfaction.

Weightmans LLP

Mark Crichard

As a market leading technology and outsourcing lawyer, Mark Crichard can help both customers and suppliers on any technology related matter, whether big or small. Specialising in non-contentious technology matters (including telecoms) and all forms of outsourcing, Mark has over 20 years' experience advising a range of technology suppliers and customers on systems development/procurement, software licensing and distribution, cloud computing and open source issues. On the outsourcing front, Mark advises on all types of projects including the outsourcing of IT infrastructure, AD/AM, network and data centre services, F&A, HR, FM, healthcare services and other business processes. Mark also advises clients on establishing shared service operations, joint ventures and public private partnerships. His clients include service providers, technology suppliers, insurers and other financial institutions, retailers, airlines and healthcare providers.

RPC

Mark Culbert

Mark is a co-founder of iLaw Solicitors, a founder of the IT Disputes Group of the Society for Computers and Law and a co-founder of the International Commercial Law Alliance. He is also a non-executive director of London Stock Exchange AIM listed Alien Metals Ltd.

Culbert Ellis

Mark Cullingford

Mark has over 20 years’ experience in advising on business recovery, restructuring and technical insolvency issues and has been consistently regarded in the Legal 500 as a leading practitioner in restructuring and business and personal insolvency since moving to the South West from Nottingham in 1999. Mark and the team’s practice includes pre-insolvency advisory work, advice to businesses on the brink of insolvency, distressed and pre-pack transactions including advice to executive and non executive directors/propietors, stakeholders, creditors and associates or insolvency practitioners engaged to oversee or conduct the transaction. Clients include a large number of regional and national firms of insolvency practitioners, lenders, creditors, businesses, their management and individuals. Mark is a regular presenter at R3 seminars and training courses. Some examples of Mark’s recent assignments have included: advising administrators of a national music retailer in dealing with multiple ROT claims, claims for conversion made against administrators and other disputes; advising an international vehicle manufacturer on the restructuring of its regional franchise arrangements following the insolvency of a group of franchisees/dealers; advising trustees of a charitable company on the restructuring and adjustment of pension schemes in light of pensions deficit arising on cessation; advising a publically owned trading company on restructuring and insolvency issues and negotiations with its sponsoring authority including related pensions and regulatory compliance issues. Insolvency practitioner clients include: Baker Tilly; BDO; Begbies Traynor; Bishop Flemming; FRP Advisory; Grant Thornton; Hazlewoods; KPMG; Kingston Smith; Leonard Curtis; Macintyre Hudson; Mazars; Milsted Langdon; Moore Stephens; Moorfields; Price Waterhouse Coopers; Smith Williamson; Undebt UK. Recent reported cases: Re European Home Retail plc, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills v Fowler and others [2012] (oppressive disqualification proceedings); Hicks and Ponting v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2013] Mithani, Director’s Disqualification (discharge of disqualification undertaking).

Thrings LLP

Mark Daniels

Browne Jacobson LLP

Mark Davenport

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Mark Davies

Partner and Head of Property Disputes

Healys LLP

Mark Davis

Partner

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Mark Davis

Partner

Warners Solicitors

Mark Deans

Partner and Head of Department. Commercial and residential property matters including acquisitions, refinancing and disposals of residential and commercial sites, leasehold transactions both commercial and residential, and acting on behalf of lenders. Corporate matters including share and asset acquisitions/disposals together with corporate finance.

Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP

Mark Deans

Partner and Head of Department. Commercial and residential property matters including acquisitions, refinancing and disposals of residential and commercial sites, leasehold transactions both commercial and residential, and acting on behalf of lenders. Corporate matters including share and asset acquisitions/disposals together with corporate finance.

Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP

Mark Dent

Mark is an experienced employment solicitor with a career spanning more than 20 years, during which he has gained a wealth of experience working at both international and niche law firms. Mark’s client base consists of employers and senior, often director-level, employees across a broad spectrum of sectors – such the banking, property, legal, pharmaceutical, insurance, retail, and public sectors, including the NHS and local government. Mark is also an accredited Employment and Workplace Mediator and has been involved in a number of high-level mediations, including with a major international food retailer. Such mediations very often result in a binding mediation agreement, involving continuing employment or an agreed exit.

Keystone Law