Mark Arnold KC - Commercial Barrister

South Square is a leading set of commercial law barristers. Our members have acted in many of the most important restructuring, insolvency, banking, commercial, company and fraud-related disputes of recent times. We are regulated by the Bar Standards Board.

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Mark practises from South Square, of which he served as joint head of chambers 2017-2022. He is an advocate with more than 35 years’ experience, specialising in domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency, banking and company law.

He has appeared or advised in major restructurings and insolvencies and other substantial matters in many sectors, including energy (Yunneng Wind Power, Bulb Energy, TXU), engineering, procurement and construction (McDermott – CB&I UK, Petrofac) oil and gas (Seven Energy, Paragon Offshore, Prospector and others), entertainment (Cineworld), banking and financial services (MF Global, ARM Asset Backed Securities, SAAD, Lehman: Waterfall 1 and ECAPS 2, Kaupthing, BCCI and others), pensions (Silentnight, Box Clever, Lehman: Storm Funding, and Dana), real estate (Sino-Ocean) retail (Steinhoff, Stripes, Card Protection Plan, Woolworths), shipping (Northsea Base Investments Group and others, principally Chinese and Korean shipbuilders), telecommunications (Phones4U, Hellas Telecommunications, Dolphin and others) and logistics (Syncreon).

Mark is also the editor of the 4^th edition of Company Directors: Duties, Liabilities and Remedies, published by Oxford University Press in January 2024, to which he contributed chapters on directors’ duties.

The leading guides to the UK Bar have variously described Mark as “a very, very good advocate who is easy to deal with and liked by clients. His written work is top drawer”, “very thorough, extremely intelligent and very good to work with” and “diligent, calm, well-organised and a pleasure to deal with”.