Experience and Expertise

Mark has advised upon a range of contractual issues and handled disputes across a broad range of industries, including matters arising out of or related to accounting, asset finance, banking and financial services, commodities, construction, derivatives, distribution agreements, employment, energy, engineering, fraud, guarantees, insolvency, insurance and reinsurance, IT, joint ventures, leasing, letters of credit, licence agreements, logistics, metallurgy, naval architecture, oil and gas, planned maintenance, power, product liability, professional negligence, property, project finance, sale and purchase, secured lending, shipping, shipbuilding, supply agreements, surveying and transport.

He is the author of the first and second editions of Bareboat Charters published by Lloyds of London Press in 2000 and 2005

He has been regularly recognised as a leading expert in Legal Business' Legal Experts publications and acknowledged as one of the World's leading litigation lawyers in Euromoney's guide to "The World's Leading Litigation Lawyers".

He has conducted cases before all divisions of the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Privy Council, represented clients involved in arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, LMAA, and UNCITRAL, and conducted or overseen proceedings in a number of foreign jurisdictions including Brazil, Canada, China, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Northern Ireland, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the USA.

Mark is a CEDR accredited mediator and a visiting lecturer at the International Maritime Law Institute in Malta.

Reported Cases

FKI Engineering Ltd and another v Stribog Ltd [2010] EWHC 1160 (Comm)

Datasat Communications Limited and others v Swindon Town Football Club Limited and another 2009 EWHC 859 (COMM)

Deutsche Bank AG and others v Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communications Inc and another [2008] EWCA Civ 1091, [2008] All ER (D) 104 (Oct)

Deutsche Bank AG v Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communications inc [2008] EWHC 918 (Comm)

FKI Engineering Ltd v De Wind Holdings Ltd (Lawtel: 28 February 2008)

FKI Engineering Ltd v De Wind Holdings Ltd [2007] EWHC 72 (Comm); [2007] I.L.Pr. 17

St Ivel Limited and another v Wincanton Group Limited [2008] EWCA Civ 1286, [2008] All ER (D) 264 (Nov)

St Ivel Ltd v Wincanton Group Ltd [2007] EWHC 2906 (Comm)

Aboualsaud v Aboukhater [2007] EWHC 2122 (QB

Hempel A/S v B Bradford [2006] EWHC 2528

Haugland Tankers AS v RMK Marine (2005) EWHC 321 (

BMBF (No. 12) Ltd v Harland & Wolff Shipbuilding and Heavy Industries Ltd LTL 17/11/2000

Pegler Limited –v- Wang (UK) Limited (2000) IT+CLR 617

The Trustee of the Property of Jan Yngve Pehrsson (A Bankrupt) v Madeleine Von Greyerz LTL18/6/99

Red Sea Tankers Ltd and Others -v- Papachristidis and Others [1997] 2 Lloyds Rep 547

Brostoff & Others v Clark Kenneth Leventhal (a firm) LTL 13/3/96

Egon Oldendorff -v- Libera Corporation [1995] 2 Lloyds Rep 64 (first instance); [1996] 1 Lloyds Rep 380 (Court of Appeal)

Macmillan Inc -v- Bishopsgate Investment Trust Company Plc and Others [1995] 3 All ER 747 (first instance); [1996] 1 All ER 585 (Court of Appeal); TLR  7/12/98 : (1999) CLC 417 (Court of Appeal) 

Hancock Shipping Company Limited -v- Kawasaki Heavy Industries [1991] 2 Lloyds Rep 550 (first instance); [1992] 1 WLR 1025 (Court of Appeal)

Gyllenhammar & Partners International Limited and Others -v- Sour Brodogradevna Industrija [1989] 2 Lloyds Rep 403 (first instance)

Publications

Author “Bareboat Charters”, 1st and 2nd Edition, Lloyds of London Press Limited, 2000/2005

The New Civil Procedure Rules, CDG guide 1999

Joint Editor, “Credit & Finance Law” 1991-1994

Articles

"Experience of giving evidence not required”, Legal Week, November 2000

“Court guides owners on interpretation of due diligence”, Lloyds List, July 2000

“Exclusion and Limitation Clauses in IT Contracts”, (Co-author), Computers & Law, May 2000

“Putting ‘non-variation’ clauses under the microscope”, Lloyds List, November 1998

“Examining ‘Entire Agreement’ Clauses”, Lloyds List, September 1998

“Implications of New Ruling on Disputes”, Lloyds List, March 1998

“Exclusion Clause Decision: Consequential and Indirect Loss Clarified”, Corporate Counsel, January 1998

“Exercising Discretion in Jurisdiction”, Lloyds List, June 1997

“Red Fund Ruling Cheer for Executives”, Lloyds List, May 1997