Serle Court

Chancery, Commercial, Private Client, Trusts, Probate, Partnership & LLP, Property, Offshore, Civil Fraud, Charities, Intellectual Property, Professional Negligence, Financial Services, Regulatory & Discipinary, Administrative and Public Law and Court of Protection.

Mark has a busy commercial chancery practice with a particular interest in civil fraud, commercial litigation, shareholder disputes and trusts. He is instructed regularly in the High Court as sole counsel or as part of a larger team.

Mark recently acted in the Eclipse litigation, one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2024. Other recent instructions include acting in a claim arising out of the breakdown in relationship between the founders of a multi-million pound restaurant business (Malik v Hussain [2020] EWHC 2334 (Ch); [2021] EWHC 1405 (Ch); [2023] EWCA Civ 2), a matter arising out of the purchase of a Luxembourg business involving allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation, a substantial offshore trust matter involving allegations of breach of trust against former trustees.

Before coming to the Bar, Mark read Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked in the online gambling industry, and this background means that he is comfortable with matters involving financial, accounting, or other complex technical issues and expert evidence. Mark previously taught courses in trusts at undergraduate and postgraduate level at UCL.

Year of Call: 2017.

Trinity College, University of Cambridge: Mathematics (MA) BPP University: Law (LLB) (First Class, highest mark in the year) University College London: Law (LLM) (Distinction, highest mark in the year) University of Law: BPTC (Outstanding)