Chambers BAR awards 2010 Winner

Mark Arnold

Mark Arnold

Contact details:
3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP
Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7969 9911
LDE338 (Chancery) Lane
Email practicemanagers@southsquare.com
Web www.southsquare.com
Professional career:
Called to the Bar in 1988 (Middle Temple)
Astbury Scholarship (Middle Temple)
Education:
MA Cantab (Downing College, Cambridge)
Graystone Exhibition
Areas of practice:

Recommended as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners and Legal Experts, Mark Arnold’s practice comprises corporate insolvency and restructuring; Chancery/ commercial litigation; banking and company law; personal insolvency and professional negligence.

He has been heavily involved in many major restructurings and insolvencies in recent years, including TXU; Eurotunnel, Dana UK, Schefenacker and Lehman. Over the past year, he has been involved in Nortel Networks; Visteon UK; Woolworths (acting on behalf of BBC Worldwide in its successful dispute with the Administrators over the applicability of the anti-deprivation principle (the common law rule against fraud on the bankruptcy/insolvency laws), both at first instance and in the Court of Appeal); and Hellas Telecommunications (reputedly the largest pre-pack so far).