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Mark Burgess-Smith

Work Department
Commercial Property
Position
Mark Burgess-Smith joined Farrer & Co in 2020 as Senior Counsel in the Commercial Property team.
Career
Mark was at a magic circle firm until late 2019 and brings with him more than 30 years’ experience of high value property work, including large-scale sales, acquisitions and developments. A pioneer in ground-breaking techniques, such as the development of propco/opco structures, his experience also stretches to the esoteric aspects of commercial property – for example, leasing offshore depleted acquifers for carbon dioxide storage.
His work also includes acting on the sale of Battersea Power Station to a Malaysian consortium, negotiating the master development agreement for the Rugby Radio Station site for Prologis, and transactions involving tens of thousands of pubs over the years.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Residential property
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Real estate > Property finance
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration