Mark leads Pinsent Masons' transactional Construction and Engineering team in the UK.

Mark's experience

  • Advised Chalkdene Developments LLP, a 50:50 partnership between Hertfordshire County Council's property company Herts Living Limited and Morgan Sindall, on a £2 billion development scheme in Hertfordshire. This included acquisition of a site in Welwyn Garden City which had planning permission for 21 new homes.

  • Advising Suffolk County Council on multi-disciplinary matters, including planning, procurement and construction advice on the Council's project for the construction of the Gull Wing, Lowestoft’s third crossing over Lake Lothing. This visually striking lifting bridge is Suffolk’s most significant infrastructure development in years and secured over £70m of DfT funding. It is considered essential to the regeneration of Lowestoft and secured DCO approval in June 2020.

  • Advised London Borough of Wandsworth on the establishment of a development and construction joint venture PPP to deliver a £2bn regeneration scheme in the Winstanley and York Road Estates. The joint venture will deliver new housing, community, leisure and commercial uses to the 13 hectare site over a 15 year period. The project is multi-layered and also includes provision for PRS.

  • Advised Wates Construction Limited on design and build contracts for over 30 school new build and renovation projects under the Education Funding Agency Framework. Previously Advised Wates as building contractor on numerous school PFI and BSF projects including Slough Schools, Kirklees Schools and Reading Schools and Luton BSF and housing/care home PFI contracts including Kirklees, Oldham and Hull Extra Care.

  • Advised Yapı Merkezi İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. as EPC contractor on two rail projects in Tanzania. The first is in joint venture with Mota-Engil, Engenharia e Construcas Africa S.A. and is for the design and construction of a railway line from Dar Es Salaam to Morogoro including the design, execution, construction, completion, testing and maintenance of 300km of electrified line. The other is for the construction of a 336km railway line from Morogoro to Makatupora near Dodoma and includes the construction of eight passenger stations and six freight terminals. Our work on these projects included drafting and negotiating the joint-venture agreement with Mota-Engil and associated works agreement.

  • Advised London Borough of Wandsworth on the establishment of a development and construction joint venture PPP to deliver a £1bn regeneration scheme in the Winstanley and York Road Estates. The joint venture will deliver new housing, community, leisure and commercial uses to the 13 hectare site over a 15 year period.

  • Advised Lendlease on construction contracts and related documents for development projects in London including the International Quarter at the Olympic site in Stratford, Elephant & Castle at Southwark and the new Google Headquarters at Kings Cross. Main contracts are based on various JCT standard form contracts including the JCT Major Projects Form.

  • Advised Yapı Merkezi İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. on contract documentation in its role as part of the successful consortium appointed for the construction and operation of the 2,000m bridge project spanning the Dardanelle Strait in Turkey. Once completed, this will be one of the world's longest suspension bridges.

  • Advised Yapi Merkezi Inşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. on EPC and supply chain contracts and performed a project counsel role for this US$1.7bn new build rail and rail station project in Ethiopia. This included developing and negotiating complex supply chain structures to facilitate direct payments from lenders and to secure support from the export credit agencies of countries including Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Turkey.

  • Provided procurement and strategic advice to Himor (Carrington) Limited on the construction of the brownfield Carrington Village project, the development of approximately 450 acres of former industrial land and 1,200 acres of agricultural land. The development's first phase will deliver up to 900 new homes and one million square feet of employment space.

Credentials

  • 1995
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 1992
    Qualified - England and Wales
  • 1990
    University of Nottingham - LLB
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