Mark Watson > Ashtons Legal > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
Ashtons Legal Offices
TRAFALGAR HOUSE
MERIDIAN WAY
NORWICH
NR7 0TA
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Mark Watson
Work Department
Corporate & Commercial
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Mark is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial team.
He advises upon a broad range of corporate transactions and on complex commercial arrangements for a range of local and national businesses as well as advising our panel banks and other financial institutions on the corporate aspects of their lending and associated securities as part of our cross-team banking and finance group.
Mark has a wealth of experience in leading numerous corporate transactions and has a particular specialism in corporate restructurings and share options, including the legal aspects of EMI schemes.
Mark advises clients on sale and purchase agreements and disclosure letters in relation to various share and asset mergers, acquisitions and disposals, as well as confidentiality agreements, heads of terms, due diligence and managing the transactional processes as lead adviser.
Mark also advises a number of franchisors and franchisees on franchise business sales.
This corporate experience extends to advising on shareholders rights and protections, including drafting and negotiating shareholders agreements and investment agreements.
In addition, Mark also advises a wide range of business clients on their commercial arrangements, including distribution and agency agreements and supply agreements, as well as drafting terms and conditions for a variety of businesses.
Mark lives in Norfolk with his young family and is a keen cyclist.
Languages
English
Memberships
Law Society
Education
Lancaster University LLB Law
College of Law – York
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
(Leading associates)The corporate and commercial group at Ashtons Legal is led from Ipswich by Geoff Hazlewood but its Norwich office is home to an experienced group of partners whose work spans key sectors regionally and nationally. Franchising specialists Damian Humphrey and John Chambers, who increasingly work for franchisees as well as franchisors, have a nationally recognised practice. CEO James Tarling helped establish the firm’s presence in the technology sector, and corporate transaction specialist Richard Bailey is a key adviser to national and international trade organisations and associations. Senior associates Mark Watson and the ‘friendly and diligent‘ David Sloman also play key roles in the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading associates East Anglia > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial: Norwich East Anglia > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Transport and shipping
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge