Mark Norris > Sullivan & Worcester LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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TOWER 42
25 OLD BROAD STREET
LONDON
EC2N 1HQ
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Mark Norris
Work Department
Trade & Export Finance Group
Position
Mark’s practice covers cross border inward investment, syndicated lending, structured export credit finance, structured trade and commodity finance, debt restructurings and asset finance. He has been recognised in The Legal 500 UK as “excelling” in structured export credit transactions and is praised for his “commercial and user-friendly approach.”
Mark advises on ESG financings including hospitals, clean energy and transportation, and advises on financial crime, modern slavery, bribery and corruption issues in connection with trade and export finance. He led Sullivan’s response to the UK Government’s consultation on UK Export Finance (UKEF)’s anti-bribery and corruption policy, with many of his recommendations accepted by the UK Government.
He has advised financial institutions, funds, corporate borrowers, agents and trustees, and national and supranational sovereign/quasi-sovereign organisations on award-winning finance transactions throughout Africa, Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS and the Middle East.
Mark has extensive sector experience in infrastructure financing across Africa including off-grid power, healthcare and transportation, and has lived and practised law in the Czech Republic (Prague), England (London), Germany (Düsseldorf and Frankfurt) and Russia (Moscow).
Mark holds graduate and post-graduate degrees with honours from the London School of Economics.
Career
Joined Sullivan & Worcester in 2013
Memberships
- Export Finance and Trade Committee, British Bankers Association
- Trustee, National Youth Agency
- Royal African Society
- Royal Institute of International Affairs
Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science, LLM, 2010
- College of Law, Law Society Finals, 1989
- College of Law, Common Professional Examination, 1988
- London School of Economics and Political Science, BSc (Economics), 1987
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Trade finance
(Leading individuals)Sullivan & Worcester LLP has ‘a dedicated team with depth of knowledge and they are great people to work with‘. The firm is not only a key adviser to financial institutions, funds, corporate borrowers, agents and trustees, international and industry bodies on the full range of traditional trade finance instruments, but it is also a leading player in the development of digital banking in trade finance platforms. Geoffrey Wynne
(who is ‘the most experienced trade finance lawyer in the market‘), the ‘hugely knowledgeable, commercially aware‘ Simon Cook (who is ‘super-attentive to clients, and commercial when needed‘), Sam Fowler-Holmes (who is ‘super-attentive to clients, and commercial when needed‘), and Mark Norris (who ‘seeks to find solutions and understands that cost management is particularly important‘) are the lead partners. Managing associate Hannah Fearn and head of the UK insurance and disputes practices Marian Boyle are also key to the practice. Wynne recently assisted Lloyds Bank with the template structure for the UK’s first digital ‘promissory note’ purchase under the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) Digital Negotiable Instrument initiative (DNI).