Mark is a partner in the housing team at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP – which is a top 50 Law Firm . He specialises in acting for registered providers on their acquisitions by way of outright purchase, conditional agreements, option agreements, golden brick agreements and associated development agreements.

Additionally, Mark advises registered providers on their commercial property portfolios include the grant of leases, lease renewals, termination of leases and estate management issues such as assignments, underlettings, and alterations. He has advised registered providers on their assured tenancies and assured shorthold tenancies, and drafted provisions dealing with London Living Rent tenancies and Rights to Acquire and Rent to Buy.

Mark also acts for private clients and companies on a range of transactions, including recently the purchase of sites subsequently developed into housing and offices, schemes, office investment portfolios, and a preparatory school as a going concern from a college, as well as the refinancing of a chain of gyms. Mark has previously advised on the acquisition and development into a boutique hotel of a former grammar school, and has acted for government bodies on the property aspects of the discharge of their statutory functions.

He is a member of The Law Society’s Conveyancing and Land Law Committee, the RICS Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Forum, and Birmingham Law Society’s Legal Tech Committee.