Mark prosecutes and defends cases concerning money laundering, carbon credit carousel fraud, MTIC and diversion fraud, investor frauds, rare earth metal fraud, cyber hacking, insider trading, market abuse, and “Ponzi” schemes.

He provides specialist strategic advice to organisations and individuals facing investigation by regulators, including the FSA, SFO, Competition Commission, Department of Justice and other overseas law enforcement authorities.

By engaging Mark at the earliest stages, corporates and individuals often benefit by being able to avoid prosecution altogether. Mark advises companies with regard to compliance issues.

His civil and commercial practice centres on fraud litigation with underlying allegations of dishonesty or criminal conduct. Mark combines his knowledge of criminal law, in particular proceeds of crime and anti-corruption laws, with vast experience of prosecuting and defending complex fraud trials, to develop and deploy strategies, often to devastating effect on his opponents’ case.

Mark was nominated by his peers as one of the world’s foremost business lawyers in International Who’s Who Legal 2013.  

In 2013, he was appointed as one of a small number of specialist proceeds of crime QCs approved by the SFO to undertake their work.  At the same time, he was appointed to the SFO list of prosecuting QCs.