Mark Bardell

Mark has been a partner at the firm for over 10 years. He focuses on advising corporate clients and works with boards on both transactional and advisory work. He is frequently involved in advising on significant challenges that face boards whether on transactions, shareholder activism, governance issues or regulatory investigations. In addition, he regularly works with investment banks and corporate finance advisers in connection with their roles on major cross-border transactions. He is a General Editor of Butterworths Takeovers Law and Practice (second edition 2015) and a contributor to other leading practitioner’s texts on topics including shareholder activism, market abuse, schemes of arrangement and takeovers. He regularly lectures at Cambridge University to postgraduate MCL students as part of the Deals Course. In September 2011, he completed a two-year secondment as Secretary to the UK’s Takeover Panel. During that time he was closely involved in the day-to-day regulation of UK public takeovers and also in revising the UK’s Takeover Code, in particular the significant changes to the UK’s Takeover Code which came into effect in September 2011. He continues to be actively involved in consultations regarding amendments to the UK’s Takeover Code. In 2016 and following he has acted as Secretary to the Takeover Appeals Board in relation to various appeals