Walkers

Banking & Finance

Mark specialises in complex finance and corporate transactions involving Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law.

He leads our Banking & Finance Group in London and has extensive experience advising clients on all stages of the financial lifecycle, including:

• private credit and private capital
• structured finance (including securitisation, debt capital markets, structured fund products and derivatives)
• fund finance (including capital call, NAV and asset-backed, hybrid, rated feeder, UAP and fund-of-fund)
• corporate syndicated financings
• acquisition finance and leverage finance
• real estate finance (commercial and residential)
• project, energy and infrastructure finance
• complex cross-border equity and debt restructurings
• enforcement and distressed lending
• asset financing (including aviation, maritime and rolling stock)

Mark regularly acts for large financial institutions, traditional and private banks, investment banks and private financing solution providers.

Mark previously worked in the London and Singapore offices of Linklaters in their Project Finance team. This is also where he trained and qualified, advising public and private companies, asset-management groups, banks and other financial institutions on project, acquisition and structured financings, syndicated and secured bank loans. He also worked on inbound and outbound financing transactions for the energy and infrastructure sectors. As well as this he did a three-month secondment at Rio Tinto plc.

Admitted in:

Bermuda (registered associate) British Virgin Islands England and Wales (not practising)

Education:

Bachelor of Arts Combined Studies (BACS) History with Politics and Sociology, University of Southampton Graduate Diploma in Law, College of Law in Guildford Legal Practice Course, Oxford Law School