Mark Lucas > Moore Barlow > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Moore Barlow Offices
THE ORIEL
SYDENHAM ROAD
GUILDFORD
GU1 3SR
England
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Mark Lucas
Work Department
Business services group.
Position
As a corporate Partner, He advises on mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, shareholder arrangements and partnership law.
He enjoys identifying and achieving the right solutions and outcomes for clients and strongly believe that good service consists of responsive communication. He looks for long lasting solutions that reduce complexity, delay and risk.
He trained and qualified at Clifford Chance and spent the first eight years of my career working on a broad range of finance, company and commercial matters in the City. He believes that the best corporate lawyers are likely to have a broad range of experience of business and life.
He has a particular expertise in advising schools on mergers and in relation to their commercial contracts and other commercial issues.
He is an experienced school governor, having chaired the board at a very successful prep school in West Sussex for 6 years and served as vice-chair and chair of finance in the maintained sector for 5 years.
He has served as a member of the Law Society’s Company Law Committee and regularly contribute to the Solicitors’ Journal, for which he writes a quarterly update on commercial contract law
Career
Trained Clifford Chance, qualified 1996; assistant Farrer & Co 1998-2002; AWB Partnership senior associate (2002-07), partner (2005-08); Barlow Robbins partner (2008 onwards).
Memberships
Company law committee of The Law Society; Old Silhillians Association (London representative); Surrey Law Society.
Education
Solihull School; University of York (1991); College of Law, Guildford (1991-93).
Leisure
Family, sports, gardening.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
The multi-disciplinary and ‘superb’ team at Moore Barlow regularly advises SMEs, AIM-listed companies, private equity houses and entrepreneurs on M&A and IPOs as well as commercial contracts in the technology and engineering sectors. Southampton-based Jeremy Over and commercial lawyer John Warchus, who has ‘invaluable’ knowledge of client sectors and splits his time between the Guildford and Richmond hubs, lead the team. Also in Guildford, Mark Lucas leads on corporate transactions particularly in the independent school sector. Belinda Walters joined the team in October 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Hampshire
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Hampshire
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Hampshire
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Public sector > Public sector