Overview
Mark is a specialist in relation to financial market infrastructure and complex structured financial products and arrangements and Fintech initiatives.
His structured finance practice covers the full spectrum of structured finance arrangements, including collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), risk retention structures and financings, repackagings, fund financings and fund derivatives and balance sheet issuances; his financial market infrastructure practice includes advising financial institutions and clearing houses in relation to derivatives clearing (OTC and listed) and payments; and his Fintech practice includes advising on crypto-assets, derivatives over crypto-assets, stable coins, central bank-backed arrangements, crypto-asset-based collateral platforms and a wide variety of other innovative and exploratory projects.
Mark is one of the firm’s London trainee recruitment partners and is a member of the firm’s Fintech Steering Committee.
Professional experience
Mark has worked in both the London and New York offices of Linklaters. He is one of the firm’s London trainee recruitment partners and is a member of the firm’s Fintech Steering Committee.
Mark plays an active role in industry discussions on regulatory and practice developments in connection with financial market infrastructure and complex structured financial products.
He is a solicitor of England and Wales, qualifying in 2006.
Education and qualifications
Mark completed his Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice and obtained an LLB (Hons) from the University of Leeds.
