Partner Banking and Finance

Partner

Mark specialises in all types of finance and is well known for his extensive fund finance practice. He is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team and has significant experience in representing both borrowers and lenders (including major financial institutions, alternative lenders, sponsors, private equity funds and hedge funds) in all types of fund financing products to include subscription line facilities, NAV facilities, GP and management fee facilities, margin lending, fund-of-fund financings and derivative based structures. He has extensive experience in the field of structured finance and advises on a variety of structures including CLOs (including synthetic CLOs), securitisations, warehouse lending, repo-lending, repackagings, risk retentions and asset-based lending.

Mark specialises in all types of finance and is well known for his extensive fund finance practice. He is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team and has significant experience in representing both borrowers and lenders (including major financial institutions, alternative lenders, sponsors, private equity funds and hedge funds) in all types of fund financing products to include subscription line facilities, NAV facilities, GP and management fee facilities, margin lending, fund-of-fund financings and derivative based structures.

He has extensive experience in the field of structured finance and advises on a variety of structures including CLOs (including synthetic CLOs), securitisations, warehouse lending, repo-lending, repackagings, risk retentions and asset-based lending.

He is also part of Ogier's Aviation and Marine practice and, in particular, is known for his large practice concerning the use of yachts and superyachts including the registration, implementation of holding structures and financing for these assets.  His practice also extends to aviation matters and covers everything from the registration of corporate jets to the holding, leasing and financing of commercial airlines.

In addition to the above, Mark has extensive expertise in advising on debt listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange both on “Eurobond” listings and specialist debt listings.

Before joining Ogier in 2008, he worked as an in-house lawyer at Bank of Scotland Corporate in London.

Mark is a member of the Cayman Islands Law Society and the Law Society of Scotland.

He received his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 2000 and his Diploma in Legal Practice from Glasgow Graduate School of Law in 2001.

Mark was admitted in Cayman Islands in 2008 and also in Scotland in 2013.