Avocats – England

Mark Webster

Mark is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Trade Mark and Litigation and Dispute Resolution groups. He is a Solicitor (England and Wales), Solicitor (Ireland) and a Registered European Lawyer (Munich).

Maucher Jenkins

Mark Weston

Mark heads our London offering for commercial, information technology (IT), intellectual property (IP), on-line commerce and media law, in both non-contentious and contentious areas. He particularly loves the technology, media and telecom (TMT) sector. Mark joined the firm in February 2016 after 12 years as partner and head of the commercial/IP/IT team at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP. Before that, he spent several years at Baker & McKenzie in London and Chicago and has also previously been seconded to Hewlett Packard and other technology businesses. Mark is used as a 'trusted adviser' by many clients in all sorts of businesses and often acts as ‘private practice in-house counsel' for many clients. He specialises in tech and internet businesses. Within IT law, Mark has particular expertise in IT projects, software issues (including development, licensing, maintenance and distribution), SaaS, Cloud and virtualization issues, outsourcing, facilities management, new media solutions, transmedia development (particularly transmedia gaming), solutions for/methods of transacting on and via the internet, online retail, ecommerce generally, s-commerce, m-commerce, liability management strategies, IT audits, procurement, IT policies, data protection (privacy) and freedom of information issues. He is also experienced in dealing with commercial disputes (including software disputes and IT litigation). The increasing media side of his practice relates primarily to publishing (both real world and digital content), to games and gaming platforms (and particularly new transmedia technologies), advising companies about their advertising onscreen, online and in print and managing their public communications strategies generally - and also television, film and music exploitation. Mark completed his law degree at University College London in 1993 (achieving top first class honours) and achieved a distinction at the College of Law, London (1994). He then trained at Allen & Overy (1995-1997).

Hill Dickinson LLP

Mark Whiting

Mark heads Capsticks professional regulatory sector team. Since qualifying in 2001, he has acted for a number of national regulatory bodies as well as acting for NHS bodies in their roles as local regulators. As Head of Sector Mark has overall responsibility for, and strategic overview of our work for all our regulatory clients. He has hands-on experience of conducting sensitive and complex fitness to practise cases, and he oversees statutory appeals and judicial reviews. Mark also provides advice to regulatory clients on a broad range of issues including the implementation of new policy and guidance, discrete areas of complex law and practice, statutory interpretation and ways to improve processes. Mark has led on the development and implementation of a bespoke case management system for our work for regulators. This enables us to deliver state of the art management information to monitor the progress of cases and has ensured that cases are prepared to meet and exceed contractual key performance indicators.

Capsticks LLP

Mark Wilcock

Mark Wilcock is a Partner in the Corporate & Finance team, advising on acquisitions and disposals of businesses, management buy-ins and buy-outs, share buybacks, complex restructuring, and shareholder/investment agreements. He is known for his straight-talking approach and understanding of clients’ commercial and corporate needs, helping high-net-worth individuals, SMEs, and large corporates across sectors including sport, recruitment, engineering, and technology.

Flint Bishop

Mark Wilding

Senior Associate

Hugh James

Mark Wilson

Partner

Richard Nelson LLP

Mark Winthorpe

Partner

Lewis Silkin

Mark Wood

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Mark Woodall

Partner - Cross Border

Weightmans LLP

Mark Woodward

Senior Counsel Mark has extensive experience of advising high net worth individuals, banks and trust companies on inheritance and capital gains tax planning. He acts principally for families advising on protecting assets and ensuring that they pass to the next generation tax efficiently through wills and trusts. Mark acts as trustee for many family trusts. He also advises individuals on tax efficient giving to charities and acts for charities on a wide range of issues, including governance and charity Commission regulation.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Mark Zerdin

Partner; Mark advises on a wide range of transactions for corporates, private equity clients and family offices. His principal areas of work are public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals, private equity investment and joint ventures. Mark also heads our Latin American practice.

Slaughter and May

Markus Klempa

Experienced property litigator helping developers, property investors and occupiers across all sectors to manage their assets, mitigate risks and resolve disputes.

Stevens & Bolton LLP

Marlene Henderson

Browne Jacobson LLP

Marsili Hale

Partner

Fieldfisher

Marta Grieve

Marta joined Sherrards as the Head of The Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk in 2016 after practicing with a litigation boutique based in London. In previous years, Marta has been based in Kazakhstan and Ukraine and specialised in international arbitration and white-collar crime matters. Her particular expertise and experience is in complex multi-jurisdictional disputes that arise from corporate holdings and transactions connected to Russia, CIS and worldwide. She has successfully coordinated proceedings, including those arising out of FCPA, in numerous jurisdictions across a wide range of industries and had more recently focused her practice on asset tracing and debt recovery. Marta represents clients in a wide range of industries, including banking, energy, shipping, construction and telecom. She has represented governments and state-owned entities in both in contentious and non-contentious matters and has solid experience in investment arbitration matters.

Sherrards Solicitors LLP

Martha Odysseos

Associate

Olliers

Martha Whitehead

Senior Associate

Olliers

Martin A Scott

Chief Executive

MSI Global Alliance

Martin Ackland

Martin’s experience covers offices, shops and industrial buildings, the retail and leisure sectors, hotels and catering, care homes and pharmaceutical buildings. He deals with a wide variety of transactional and management work, development projects, the property aspects of corporate acquisitions and fund raising. His clients include institutions with a traditional attitude to business and entrepreneurs who are uninhibited by convention. Martin represents investors, managers, traders, developers and occupiers and a number of overseas investors and professional clients. His current focus is with the development of care homes and institutional investors in the real estate market.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Martin Arnold

Partner specialising in all aspects of corporate insolvency, both contentious and non-contentious. He acts for liquidators, administrators and receivers, banks and asset-based lenders, as well as advising companies on appropriate insolvency processes. Recent projects have involved advising on claims against directors and shadow directors and defending claims brought against directors, including Company Directors Disqualification Act proceedings; making claims in relation to all types of antecedent transactions; dealing with appointments of administrators, administrative receivers and liquidators in relation to a variety of insolvent organisations; and acting on the sale of businesses by insolvency practitioners. Martin has extensive experience of multi-jurisdictional contentious insolvency proceedings, including freezing and recovering assets in various jurisdictions, including the US, Europe and Africa. Other recent work has seen Martin advising on the structuring of corporate voluntary arrangements; disputing and challenging CVAs; and advising a number of organisations, including a foreign governmental agency, on ROT issues relating to the transfer of goods subject to ROT through several jurisdictions.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Martin Askew

Martin is a Partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency team and he specialises in contentious insolvency.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Martin Blake

Martin has broad experience in a range of domestic and international banking and finance matters, including general corporate and individual lending, workouts and restructuring, property finance and acquisition finance. Martin advises lenders, borrowers and sponsors on syndicated, bilateral, secured, unsecured and structured financing transactions. He is familiar with dealing with a variety of assets used as collateral, including land, intellectual property, stocks and shares, revenue streams and other contractual rights.

Farrer & Co

Martin Bloor

Director

Fieldfisher

Martin Brown

Martin specialises in international finance and acts for a variety of financial institutions, as well as sponsors and corporate borrowers. He has worked on matters spanning the globe for market-leading international financial institutions and companies. Advising on English law, Qatari law, and the laws and regulations of the Qatar Financial Centre, Martin has advised on many conventional and Shari’a-compliant transactions throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council, Africa and Europe.

Keystone Law