Mark is a leading commercial and contract litigation lawyer. He has over 20 years of experience as a commercial litigator, with specialist knowledge and experience in banking and finance recoveries, creditors' remedies, receivership and insolvency law, relationship property disputes, and commercial and contract law.
Mark has over 20 years of experience as a commercial litigator, with specialist knowledge and experience in banking and finance recoveries, creditors' remedies, receivership and insolvency law, relationship property disputes, and commercial and contract law. Mark represents major banking and financial institutions in New Zealand as well as many receivers and liquidators. He also has a significant practice representing clients in relationship property disputes. Mark also has extensive experience in other forms of dispute resolution with a particular emphasis on mediation. Mark has acted both as mediator and as counsel in numerous mediations involving commercial disputes.
Some of Mark's major projects
Advising a large number of corporate and private clients in mediations involving a range of commercial issues
Advising a New Zealand bank in an Arbitration involving the determination of fair rental payable under a substantial commercial lease
Advising a New Zealand bank in injunction proceedings brought by borrowers attempting to frustrate the bank from exercising its secured rights as a creditor
Advising a State Owned Enterprise in various commercial/contract disputes with suppliers and contractors
Advising a New Zealand finance company in relation to a dispute relating to its rights under foreign exchange contracts
Advising a corporate client in litigation involving a dispute arising out of an agreement for the sale and purchase of a significant piece of real estate in Auckland
Advising a New Zealand bank in relation to litigation involving issues of fraud and alleged breaches of fiduciary duty
Advising a New Zealand bank in litigation involving the interpretation and application of the Proceeds of Crimes Act
Acting for the Statutory Managers advising on aspects of the statutory management of a major financial institution
Acting for a large number of receivers and liquidators advising on the full range of issues arising in receiverships and liquidations
Acting for the court appointed receivers of an agricultural partnership
Acting for a corporate client in a case before the Environment Court obtaining resource consent for the extension of industrial premises in a location regarded as an industrial/residential interface
Acting for a private client seeking enforcement orders restraining both a local authority and a resident from breaching the provisions of the Public Works Act in attempting to build on land designated as a public road way
Acting for major Auckland corporates involved in obtaining resource consent for waterfront tourist development against opposition from local residents, local iwi and other interest groups
Acting for significant iwi group in relation to cultural issues identified by the Resource Management Act. This included opposition to various resource consent applications, applications to councils and appeals to Environment Court
Memberships and directorships
Member, Institute of Directors in New Zealand Inc. (IOD)
Former President, Auckland Medico Legal Society
Seminars and publications
Mark has presented seminars on banking and insolvency law topics to branches of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, various international insolvency practices and to a number of major banking institutions.
International recognition
Leading individual - Chambers Global - 2010/2011, 2009/2010, 2008/2009, 2007/2008, 2006/2007, 2005/2006
Leading individual - Asia Pacific Legal 500 - 2011/2012, 2010/2011, 2009/2010, 2008/2009, 2007/2008, 2006/2007, 2005/2006
