Mark Norris > Sullivan & Worcester LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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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 partners)Sullivan & Worcester LLP is ‘best in class – the partners are opinion leaders in the trade finance industry‘. Known for having the largest group of specialist trade finance partners, and handling all kinds of transactions from the traditional to the highly structured, the London team works closely with the firm’s US-based trade and export finance practitioners. The deep bench of trade finance specialists and thought leaders includes Geoffrey Wynne
, who co-chaired the ICC Drafting Committee writing the Uniform Rules for Digital Trade Transactions; Simon Cook, who frequently handles transactions across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the CIS; Mark Norris, who has ‘a strong focus on finding commercial solutions and significant experience in Africa‘; and Sam Fowler-Holmes, who has extensive experience in supply chain finance. Head of the UK insurance and disputes practices Marian Boyle is ‘hugely experienced and tough when necessary‘. Daniela Barrdear, who joined from Hogan Lovells International LLP in late 2023, has a strong track record in advising both banks and non-bank financial institutions, as well as development finance institutions, multilateral organisations, and borrowers.