Avocats – England

Mark Owen

Of Counsel

Gowling WLG

Mark Paget Skelin

Bevan Brittan LLP

Mark Paterson

Partner specialising in infrastructure projects and general commercial law. Mark acts for both the public sector and private sector. He is lead adviser for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in relation to the £31bn Dreadnought Programme and the £2bn AWACs aircraft procurement. He acted for MoD on the £10bn Astute Programme and the £4.5bn Skynet 5 satellite system. Mark acted for the Department for Transport and MoD in connection with its £6bn Search and Rescue Helicopter programme. Mark also acted for the UAE Armed Forces on its procurement of a multibillion-dollar military satellite system as well as multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects in the KSA for a European based defence company. Mark also led the team advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on their multi-billion pound Dounreay and Magnox civil nuclear reactor decommissioning programmes.

Burges Salmon LLP

Mark Phillips

Mark is a partner and leads our interactive entertainment practice. He is recognised as a leader in the fields of interactive entertainment, the internet, e-commerce and publishing and is considered one of the country’s leading practitioners in video games law and the law of publishing. Mark also specialises in corporate, commercial and copyright work for clients in the media, arts and technology industries. Mark’s clients are wide ranging from working with major international organisations and businesses, to smaller and growing startups, advising at every stage of the business. Mark is ranked as a Band 1 lawyer in the Chambers UK guide for interactive entertainment, and is in The Legal 500 “Hall of Fame” for video games. Mark is also on the advisory board of Games London and The London Games Festival, is a non-executive director for the Neon Group and is a trustee of various charities.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Mark Phillips

Mark is a partner in the banking and finance practice with expertise covering investment, development and structured financing advice for borrowers, lenders and junior and mezzanine debt providers. He works closely with other practice areas of the firm, including real estate, social housing, construction, private equity and restructuring.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Mark Pipkin

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Mark Poulston

Mark heads the pensions team at Weightmans. He acts for private and public sector clients on a wide range of pension law matters including risk transfer projects, scheme amendment and termination projects, the resolution of pensions disputes and the pensions aspects of corporate transactions. Mark also specialises in group life insurance schemes. Mark has been described by the Legal 500 directory as "having a wealth of pensions experience" gained from over 30 years of pensions practice. He has practical experience of scheme management and trusteeship. Mark is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute, a Chartered Insurance Practitioner and a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers.

Weightmans LLP

Mark Pritchard

Mark Pritchard is a partner at Howard Kennedy. He is a construction litigation specialist with over 15 years' experience in high profile and complex dispute resolution. Mark is a solicitor in the construction department. He provides practical and cost-effective advice to members of the construction industry on risk during the lifespan of a project, from initial procurement to the settlement of disputes during the project and after completion. In addition to his experience in real time dispute resolution, Mark has conducted complex litigation in the Technology and Construction Court, Administrative Court, and Court of Appeal and is familiar with both the enforcement of adjudication decisions and the use of injunctive relief. He is equally at home in court or alternative dispute resolution. More recently, Mark has been engaged by one of the country's leading house-builders to provide advice in the context of fire safety reviews of over 800 developments comprising over 2000 buildings. This has given him substantial, in-depth experience of dealing with the full gamut of external wall issues and resulting litigation; advising Plc Board members on risk at asset class level, as well as on a building by building basis. In addition to his dispute avoidance and resolution practice, Mark assists clients with their construction documentation and is familiar with all of the standard forms. Through 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic, he also delivered CPD training via Zoom to the architects' profession.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Mark Randolph

Partner Areas of Practice: Commercial and Residential Property, Landlord and Tenant, Property Finance.

Wallace LLP

Mark Rathbone

Mark is a Partner in our corporate team. He supports clients across all areas of corporate law including share options, mergers and acquisitions, MBOs, MBIs, venture capital, equity capital, collective investment schemes, investment structures, joint ventures and complex commercial arrangements. Mark acts for local, national and international organisations — as well as individual business owners and shareholders — across many sectors, including manufacturing and supply chain, media and technology, waste and recycling and hotels and leisure. With a heavy focus in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship, Mark provides much-needed guidance to start-ups and early-stage businesses. He helped to found the tech accelerator Baltic Ventures Limited (for which he remains a non-executive director) as well as the LCR Angel Network (which he continues to actively assist). Mark has a strong background in non-contentious work and three decades’ worth of experience in handling corporate and commercial transactions. He works closely with other teams and departments both across our business and with other organisations to ensure that a fully integrated approach is delivered on all transactions.

Brabners LLP

Mark Reading

Mark is a Partner in the firm's Real Estate Dispute Resolution group, practising in all areas of commercial and residential property law. He has extensive court experience both at trial, on appeal and in relation to applications for injunctive relief. He has, in recent years, acted at trial for the defendant tenant in the case of London Kendal Street No 3 Ltd v Daejan Investments Ltd which were opposed lease renewal proceedings where the landlord was opposing on redevelopment grounds. This case is thought to have involved the first application of the 'conditional intention' test formulated by the Supreme Court in the case of S Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Limited. The claimant tenant was granted permission to appeal by the High Court but the matter settled before the appeal was heard. Mark also acted for the successful claimants in the following actions: a six day possession trial in the Central London County Court, which dealt with both proprietary estoppel and constructive trust defences, as well the cross-examination of ten witnesses of fact; Vivienne Westwood Limited v Conduit Street Developments Limited which considered the law of penalties in a landlord and tenant context; and Minerva (Wandsworth) Limited v Greenland Ram (London) Limited which concerned a high-value overage dispute relating to a key development site in Wandsworth. London Kendal Street was included in Estates Gazette's top ten cases of 2019 and both Vivienne Westwood and Minerva featured in the 2017 list. Mark has also had previous successes at trial in the fields of both rights of light and estate agency commissions. In addition to representing clients in live proceedings, Mark also provides strategic advice on a range of property management related matters, including: business lease renewals (both opposed and unopposed and from a landlord and tenant perspective), dilapidations (whether interim or terminal), forfeiture (including relief applications), arrears recovery, applications for consent to assign/underlet and property related insolvency issues (from both from a corporate/individual and creditor/debtor perspective). He has particular expertise in advising serviced office/workspace sector clients on these issues. He also provides strategic advice to developer clients in relation to the effect of real property issues and third party rights upon their future development plans. Mark is also at home in a residential law context and regularly advises individuals on issues arising from statutory lease extensions and tenant's rights of first refusal, as well as real property and private nuisance disputes between neighbouring landowners. In March 2021 Mark spoke at the joint Property Litigation Association and Property Bar Association panel event 'Looking back to look forward' and in June 2021 Mark took part in a podcast with Estates Gazette on the issue of diversity in the property industry.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Mark Rennie

Partner

DMH Stallard LLP

Mark Roberts

Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney

J A Kemp

Mark Robertson

Bevan Brittan LLP

Mark Robinson

Partner

Hugh James

Mark Roe

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Mark Rondell

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Mark Sachs

Mark has a broad practice in shipping, commodity and commercial litigation. He has conducted arbitrations in London, Singapore, China, Hong Kong and Stockholm either as counsel or lead partner. He also has considerable wet shipping experience having handled all types of casualties. He has litigated shipbuilding, construction and mining disputes. A fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker, Mark studied in China and is adept at working with Chinese evidence, both oral and written. He was one of the first foreign maritime lawyers to work in China in the late 1980s. In London arbitration he was the lead partner in a significant arbitration arising out of a cancellation dispute involving the vessel Atalanta. This has generated consequential High Court litigation in Westwood Shipping Lines and Weyerhaeuser NR Company v Universal Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH [2012].

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Mark Sage

Ashley founded The Family Law Practice in 2012 as the first niche family law firm in Bristol. The firm is now ten years old and thriving. Ashley is a Deputy District Judge (2019) upon the Western Circuit and a qualified Mediator and Collaborative lawyer. Ashley is highly regarded by his peers and clients alike, he receives many referrals from other solicitors and the local bar. Ashley is known for his willingness to take on cases which others may not through his passion to achieve a fair outcome and ensure that individual has someone in their corner. His case load has numerous HNW clients including one where the assets are estimated at £160m. Ashley Palminteri - The Family Law Practice

The Family Law Practice

Mark Sanders

Partner in Corporate Department.

Russells Solicitors

Mark Scott

Partner

Elkington + Fife LLP

Mark Sellers

Partner in the social housing team specialising in acting for registered providers on their acquisitions by way of outright purchase, conditional agreements, option agreements, golden brick agreements and associated development agreements. Additionally, Mark advises registered providers on all aspects of home ownership sales including shared ownership, market sales, help to buy, right to buy and lease extensions. He provides guidance on the management of housing stock including stock transfers, deeds relating to rights of light, party wall issues, loft conversions, assured shorthold tenancies and assignments of leasehold properties. Mark also acts for private clients and companies on a range of transactions.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Mark Shaw KC

Practising KC. (Blackstone Chambers, Temple, London) and mediator. As a litigator, Mark specialises in public law: especially central and local government bodies, professional disciplinary and regulatory agencies, police authorities, utilities and media organisations. This brings a depth of insight into the legal, presentational, financial, personnel, data protection and policy issues which often tax public and regulatory bodies. As a mediator, however, Mark’s 15 years of experience has mostly involved private sector disputes in almost every area of law, especially: corporate/partnership, neighbours/boundaries/land, landlord & tenant, commercial contracts, (re)insurance, media, procurement, financial services (workplace, contractual and regulatory/enforcement), health & safety, utilities, schools/universities & clubs, religious institutions, employment, industrial relations/trade unions, misconduct/misfeasance, EU, discrimination/harassment, property development, professional negligence, pensions, adult/child social care, health and family. Increasingly, Mark is trusted with the more important, high value, high profile and high temperature disputes. They often involve multiple parties, complex legal issues and international dimensions; lasting several days and demanding advanced mediator skills. Recent mediations include, for example resolving two long-running industrial relations disputes concerning changes to the pension arrangements for 1000s of public sector workers (including senior judges) the joint mediation (with Lord Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice) of a dispute over what was then thought to be the largest costs bill in UK legal history (arising from a very substantial negligence/nuisance class action about the alleged dumping of chemicals in Africa) An overseas dispute about the legality and scale of enforcement action taken by an offshore financial services regulator against traders/companies. Resolving the allocation of care responsibilities, and millions of pounds in care costs, between four public bodies. Mark has also acted as a hybrid mediator/adjudicator/visitor for Exeter University dealing with a challenge by the Christian Union to its suspension from the Students’ Union for refusing to allow non-Christian students to become members or leaders, which helped to defuse a judicial review claim. He has recently also acted as an independent investigator for a major UK professional regulator, reporting on a complaint made by a registrant against the regulator’s head.

IPOS Mediation

Mark Shepherd

Mark is a corporate partner, specialising in advising both public and private companies in corporate transactions, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, listings/de-listings, demergers, capital fund raisings and reductions, joint ventures, compliance and corporate governance. Project experience includes advising: PPF Group NV on numerous cross border M&A transactions including its acquisition of a 50% stake in the Eldorado Group, Russia's largest consumer electronics retailer for $300 million; Croma Security Solutions Group plc on numerous corporate acquisitions and corporate governance and related matters; Hitachi Rail Europe Limited in connection with its participation in a £4.5 billion government contract to build and service a new fleet of high speed intercity trains to be operated on the Great West Main Line and East Coast Main Line; Numerous owner/managers on the sale of their businesses; and A variety of corporate groups on buy and build programmes.

Shoosmiths LLP