Mark Edwardes Jones Senior Associate

Senior Associate
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Mark acts on a range of corporate and commercial disputes, with particular experience in complex shareholder claims.

Mark acts for a range of corporate clients, financial institutions and individuals in a range of sectors including private equity, technology, industrial and hospitality.

His experience covers high-value and cross-border contractual disputes, unfair prejudice petitions, joint venture disputes, fraud and insolvency claims. Mark's work is frequently cross-border.

 

Expertise

Recent work

Shareholder dispute: unfair prejudice

Acting for an individual shareholder in a substantial unfair prejudice petition raising serious conduct allegations over multiple decades.

LCIA arbitration: satellite dispute

Representing a satellite connectivity provider in a strategically important satellite pricing dispute.

Litigation funder

Acting for a listed litigation funder in a substantial arbitration concerning the conduct of a funded SPV, arising out of an underlying misselling dispute.

Joint venture dispute

Advising a private equity client in respect of a substantial joint venture dispute, including insolvency claims and allegations of fraud.

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In depth

Shareholder suffered unfair prejudice when company did not pursue exit

Dominic Sedghi, Lois Horne, Mark Edwardes Jones 29 Feb 2024
The company and its investors had agreed contractually to work together in good faith towards an exit by the end of 2019.
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Carillion disqualification proceedings dropped – but where next for NEDs?

Lois Horne, Mark Edwardes Jones , Noel Newman, Madeleine Brown 29 Nov 2023
On 13 October 2023, the Insolvency Service (IS), acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, discontinued the disqualification proceedings which it had...
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Trends in minority shareholder complaints

Lois Horne, Mark Edwardes Jones 05 Oct 2021
Recent years have presented a turbulent backdrop for companies across all sectors and sizes: the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and the increasing pace of technological and...
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