Mark is one of the firm’s two managing partners. A member of our finance team, he is experienced in all aspects of domestic and international fundraising, particularly asset financing, structured transactions and securitisation.
Mark acts for financial institutions and corporate issuers on capital markets and other funding transactions. Recent work includes cross-border structured financing transactions, acting for both New Zealand and overseas banks and corporates. He also advises on debt capital markets transactions, project finance transactions, securitisation programmes and cross-border leases. Between 1987 and 1990 Mark practised with Freshfields in London.
Mark is recommended as a leading lawyer in banking and finance by Chambers Global, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and IFLR 1000. He is also listed as a leading lawyer in capital markets by IFLR 1000 and in Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Banking Lawyers and Legal Media Group to the World’s Leading Structured Finance and Securitisation Lawyers.
Recent experience
Mark has advised:
- Telecom on its three-way operational separation
- Transpower on its separation from ECNZ and the Electricity Reform Transition Unit on the split of ECNZ
- Treasury on its shareholding arrangements in the tournament management vehicle for the Rugby World Cup 2011
- the Ministry for the Environment on the negotiation of the first Negotiated Greenhouse Agreement with New Zealand Refining Company, and
- the Ministry of Economic Development on all aspects of the development and construction of the Whirinaki reserve generation station.