EIP

EIP Commercial

Partner, Solicitor

Mark is an experienced commercial IP and data protection lawyer who has advised clients in many industry sectors on a wide variety of commercial arrangements including technology transfer agreements, IP licences, trademark licences and franchise agreements, R&D and collaboration agreements, and outsourcing, development and system procurement agreements, and in corporate and corporate finance transactions.

Before he joined EIP, Mark was a partner with Brown Rudnick LLP for the past four years, and before that Mark was at Ashurst LLP for over 20 years heading up different teams in IP and tech during his time there.

2022 — present Partner, EIP 2018 — 2022 Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP 1996 — 2018 Senior Partner, Ashurst LLP 1992 — 1995 Associate Partner, Ashurst Morris Crisp 1989 — 1992 Senior Associate, Ashurst Morris Crisp 1982 — 1988 Associate, McKenna & Co. 1981 — 1982 Guest Associate, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio

Member of the Society for Computers and the Law (SCL)

Member of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)

Member of Intellectual Property Lawyer's Association (IPLA)

Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Agents (CITMA)

Member of the International Trademark Association (INTA)

Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

Solicitor – Law Society (1984)

1984 CPE, College of Law, Guildford 1980 MA in Natural Sciences and Law, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge