Background Mark graduated LLB (Hons) BA from Auckland University in 1993, and was admitted to the New Zealand bar in the same year.
From 1994-1998, Mark was a litigator at Russell McVeagh. In 1999 he worked in Dublin, at A & L Goodbody, Ireland’s pre-eminent firm. From 2000-2004, he was a litigator at Simpson Grierson. Since 2005, he has been a barrister, practising from Park Chambers, Auckland.
Advocacy Mark has broad experience in litigating company, construction, contract, employment, estates, finance, insurance, intellectual property, medico-legal, negligence, partnership, property, trusts and weathertightness disputes.
Commercial Mediation Mark completed the Mediating Disputes course at Harvard Law School. He is a Fellow of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand, and an AMINZ Council member. Mark is also a Resolution Institute-trained and accredited mediator.
He has successfully mediated disputes involving: company, construction, contract, earthquake, education, employment, finance, insurance, intellectual property, negligence, partnership, property, relationship property, rural, sexual harassment, trust and weathertightness issues. He has worked with local and international parties.
Mark was the winner of the Resolution Institute's 2015 award for contribution to dispute resolution by an emerging practitioner. In 2016 he was recognised as one of the top 10 mediators in New Zealand by LawFuel. He was also awarded the AMINZ Ann Edge Memorial Award for Excellence in Fellowship Mediation and the Fellowship Mediation Prize.