Mark is a partner in the corporate division and his practice extends across a wide variety of domestic and cross-border corporate, corporate finance and M&A work including takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and capital markets work.
Credentials
- EdF on its £12.5 billion takeover of British Energy Group including the issue of the Nuclear Power Notes as consideration to British Energy shareholders and associated plans for new nuclear build in the UK
- Resolution throughout the competing bids from Friends Provident, Standard Life / Swiss Re and the ultimately successful £5.0 billion bid from Pearl / Royal London
- Tata Steel on its successful £6.2 billion bid for Corus, following the competitive auction with CSN
- Fortune Brands on its complex £2.8 billion investment in the £7.4 billion break-up bid with Pernod Ricard for Allied Domecq
- Carnival Corporation on its innovative £4.7 billion dual listed combination with P&O Princess Cruises plc and partial share offer
- TIW on the sale of its assets at $4.4 billion to Vodafone
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting on its demerger from PwC, aborted flotation and subsequent $3.5 billion sale to IBM
- LogicaCMG on its £400 million 1 for 2 rights issue and €1 billion takeover of Unilog, a leading French IT services provider
- Close Brothers Corporate Finance in relation to the £55 million takeover of Floors 2 Go plc by a wholly owned subsidiary of Alchemy Investment Plan
- Bulmers on its £278 million takeover by Scottish & Newcastle
- BSkyB on its £103 million takeover of 365 Media Group plc
- Time Warner on a variety of matters including the sales of its Time Life business and its music business
- Virgin Money in relation to a number of matters including its reorganisation, financing and arrangements with key providers and a number of commercial contracts
- Virgin Mobile on its IPO