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Mark Evans
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Work Department
Financial services and markets.
Position
Mark is head of the firm’s payments group and has particular expertise on the law, practice and regulatory requirements impacting upon infrastructure and retail providers of settlement, clearing and payment services (including e-money). He advised on the introduction of RTGS payments in central bank money for the UK and Irish securities markets, which was ‘highly commended’ for innovation at the ‘Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyer Awards; the dematerialisation of the UK’s money markets (for which his team was awarded ‘Corporate Team Of The Year’ in the Lawyer Awards); and the introduction of competitive clearing and netting services for the UK and other European markets. His expertise covers securities, banking, insolvency and collateralisation issues.
Career
Trained Freshfields; qualified 1992; partner Travers Smith 1998; publications include: contributor to ‘Tolley’s Company Law’; author of ‘Opportunities for Collateralisation: Recent and Prospective Developments in Settlement’ and ‘The Sun Sets on Daylight Exposure: a UK Settlement Perspective’ (both in Butterworths’ ‘Journal of International Banking and Financial Law’); ‘Moving to a Dematerialised Capital Market: Short-Term Instruments, Long-Term Gain’ (Sweet & Maxwell’s Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation).
Member
Financial Law Committee of the City of London Law Society; firm’s principal contact for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. He was a member of the expert working group formed by the Bank of England’s FMLC to examine the market and other issues arising out of Lehman’s collapse.
Education
Bristol Grammar School; St John’s College, Oxford; called to the Bar in 1987; re-qualified as a solicitor in 1992.
Leisure
Family, sport.
Practice Areas
Electronic commerce; Financial services; Insolvency and corporate recovery
