Mr Mark Wraith > Serle Court > London, England > Barrister Profile
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Mr Mark Wraith
Work Department
Chancery, Commercial, Private Client, Trusts, Probate, Partnership & LLP, Property, Offshore, Civil Fraud, Charities, Intellectual Property, Professional Negligence, Financial Services, Regulatory & Discipinary, Administrative and Public Law and Court of Protection.
Position
Mark has a busy commercial chancery practice with a particular interest in civil fraud, commercial litigation, shareholder disputes and trusts. He is instructed regularly in the High Court as sole counsel or as part of a larger team.
Mark recently acted in the Eclipse litigation, one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2024. Other recent instructions include acting in a claim arising out of the breakdown in relationship between the founders of a multi-million pound restaurant business (Malik v Hussain [2020] EWHC 2334 (Ch); [2021] EWHC 1405 (Ch); [2023] EWCA Civ 2), a matter arising out of the purchase of a Luxembourg business involving allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation, a substantial offshore trust matter involving allegations of breach of trust against former trustees.
Before coming to the Bar, Mark read Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked in the online gambling industry, and this background means that he is comfortable with matters involving financial, accounting, or other complex technical issues and expert evidence. Mark previously taught courses in trusts at undergraduate and postgraduate level at UCL.
Career
Year of Call: 2017.
Education
Trinity College, University of Cambridge: Mathematics (MA)
BPP University: Law (LLB) (First Class, highest mark in the year)
University College London: Law (LLM) (Distinction, highest mark in the year)
University of Law: BPTC (Outstanding)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
Members of Serle Court have been involved in high-profile and complex banking and finance cases, including those that crossover with commercial litigation, both in the UK High Court and abroad, including the Dubai International Financial Centre Court (DIFC). Members routinely act for and against well known banks, including HSBC, where James Mather and Mark Wraith acted for the claimants in litigation against HSBC arising out of the failed ‘Eclipse’ film investment scheme in Akinluyi & Ors v HSBC UK Bank Plc. Philip Marshall KC has an extensive offshore practice, representing clients in the BVI, Bermuda, Cayman and the Channel Islands, while Simon Hattan covers a broad range of areas within banking and finance, including disciplinary proceedings, in particular those related to financial services.