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Weightmans Offices
85 FLEET STREET
LONDON
EC4Y 1AE
England
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Mark Baker
Work Department
Commercial Property
Position
Mark is a Partner and heads the Commercial Property team advising clients on development, development finance, investment, property finance and landlord and tenant matters.
Mark’s clients include investment funds, banks, property companies and high net worth individuals. He handles acquisitions and disposals, large scale developments, secured lending and financing for both borrower and lender, property portfolio management, rights of light issues and planning agreements.
Recent experience includes:
– Acting for a pension fund on the acquisition of its property portfolio;
– Advising on the acquisition of a boutique London hotel
– Acting on the acquisition and disposal of a chain of UK restaurants
– Advising on various mixed use developments and dealing with rights of light and telecommunications issues
– Acquiring restaurant premises in Central London
– Advising a major bank on its security over a large redevelopment in London
Career
Trained at Nabarro qualifying in 1995 and then Associate and Senior Associate until 2003; Senior Associate at BLP until 2006; Partner at Mishcon de Reya 2007 until 2009; Partner at RadcliffesLeBrasseur from 2009.
Memberships
The Law Society
Education
Lancaster University (LLB Hons, M.Phil)
Leisure
Watching sport
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Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Public sector > Local government
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Transport > Travel
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
- Transport > Aviation
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Healthcare
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Video games
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Residential property
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Shipping
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Employment > Employers