Twenty Essex

Arbitration; Civil fraud and asset tracing; Company law; Insolvency and restructuring; Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement

Mark has a busy, commercial chancery practice which has a particular focus on civil fraud / asset recovery and disputes with a company and/or insolvency law aspect. He is recognised as a “Rising Star” in The Legal 500 for commercial litigation.

Mark is frequently instructed in complex, high-value litigation and arbitration. To give just two recent examples, Mark is currently instructed by five of eight defendants in a claim brought against them for $1 billion in respect of an alleged scheme to divert the proceeds of the sale of gold bullion (Harrington & Charles Trading Company Limited (in liquidation) & Ors v Mehta & Ors); he also acts for the claimants in connection in claims arising out of the purchase of shares in a medical technology company, which it is alleged were procured by deceit (Segulah Medical Acceleration AB & Ors v Tripathi & Anor).

Mark has been instructed on a number of applications for urgent, ex parte relief (in particular freezing and proprietary injunctions). Most recently, he assisted Tony Beswetherick KC in obtaining a freezing and proprietary injunction before HHJ Jarman KC and Duncan Matthews KC in obtaining a freezing injunction before Mr Nicholas Thompsell, both of which are continuing to trial.

Mark also has experience in offshore work, having recently been instructed to work with local counsel on a number of matters before the Financial Services Division of the Grand Court (Cayman Islands).

Prior to being called to the Bar, Mark read Classics at Christ’s College, Cambridge (Double First). Thereafter, Mark took the Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction) and LLMs in Bar Professional Training (City, University of London) and International Dispute Resolution (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin). After his pupillage, Mark undertook a short stint as a judicial assistant in the Chancery Division of the High Court to Marcus Smith J and Snowden and Birss LJJ.

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German; Italian (conversational)