“Mark is always very responsive, knowledgeable and able to quickly get under the skin of what's important to us as a client.”
Chambers UK, 2025
About
Mark is a highly experienced partner in the firm’s Corporate and M&A team and former Head of our Private Equity team. He has over 25 years’ experience acting for multi-national organisations and institutions, entrepreneurial businesses and high-net-worth individuals.
As a member of our Private Equity team, Mark has significant expertise advising institutions, management teams and investee companies on all types of private equity transactions, including buy-outs, strategic investments, development capital transactions, re-financings and exits.
He works on transactions across several sectors, with a particular focus on financial services, healthcare and infrastructure.
Experience
- Embark: Advising leading digital wealth management platform provider Embark on a series of acquisitions, institutional investment rounds and its £390 million exit to Lloyds Bank.
- Loungers: Advising the founders of Lounge and café bar chain Loungers on a number of investment rounds, including on the £338 million recommended public-to-private acquisition of Loungers by an acquisition vehicle backed by Fortress Investment Group.
- Openwork: Advising Openwork Partnership LLP, majority shareholder in The Openwork Partnership (Openwork), one of the UK’s largest financial advice networks, on a strategic investment into Openwork from global private investment firm, Bain Capital.
- Octopus: Advising Fern Fibre and Octopus Investments on the acquisitions of fibre to the premises providers Jurassic Fibre and Swish Fibre, along with long-term funding agreements of up to £475 million, and subsequent reorganisation to create Fern Fibre.
- ITM Power PLC: Advising ITM, the energy storage and clean fuel company, on a £60 million strategic partnership with Vitol Holdings SARL for wholly owned subsidiary ITM Motive.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (1999)
- Member of the International Bar Association
Areas of expertise
Sector focus
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Press releases
Burges Salmon advises founders and senior management team on £354m recommended acquisition of Loungers PLC
19 February 2025
Press releases
Burges Salmon advises Openwork Partnership LLP on investment into The Openwork Partnership from global investment firm Bain Capital
28 October 2024
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