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Mark Wood

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Senior Office Partner

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Mark is a Restructuring Partner in our Restructuring group, the Office Location Head for the Company Commercial practice group, and Senior Office Partner in Nottingham.

Mark specializes in advisory work to boards upon financial problems, corporate recovery, corporate restructuring, directors duties advice and reviewing and enforcing security for lenders acting for insolvency practitioners and LPA receivers and protecting directors in complex corporate restructuring.

Mark has led and acted in many of the UK's high-profile restructuring and insolvency assignments in the UK over the last 10 years.

The team occupies Tier 1 status in both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 for restructuring and insolvency work for the East Midlands.

He is noted for both contentious and non-contentious restructuring matters and is experienced across all sectors.

Mark is a qualified Solicitor Advocate having obtained his Higher Rights Accreditation in 2005 and been named in the turnaround Restructuring and Insolvency (TRI) 250 over the last five years.

Mark's recent experience includes:

  • acting for the Administrators of NFT Group
  • acting for the administrators of Aperture Trading Limited (formerly Synseal Group)
  • acting for Picsolve International Ltd (in Administration)
  • acting for JDP Furniture Group (in Administration)
  • representing 98% of Merchant Acquiring Industry and household named credit card companies (£600bn-plus) in a government consultation to maintain card payment transactions to risk industries
  • acting on the administration of MG Rover Group Limited for PWC
  • acting for Deloitte administrators in the administration of Mark Group Limited
  • acting on the acquisition of the business and assets of Outsourcery out of administration for GCI
  • acting for Kroll administrators on the retail administration of Feather & Black and Multiyork Limited
  • A leading individual and in Tier 1 in both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500
  • Chambers & Partners also comments that clients confirm that "the approachable, pragmatic and commercial Mark Wood provides top-quality advice”
  • Previous Chambers & Partners comments also confirm that Mark is “a very good lawyer who is personable" and "gets the job done even in tricky cases"
  • A leading individual in the Legal directories where they comment, “Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP ‘provides the level of technical quality, client service and commercial acumen normally associated with a Magic Circle firm or large City practice’, with the ‘outstanding’ and ‘technically rigorous’ Mark Wood at the helm, the practice is known for undertaking complex restructuring work, especially in the retail, financial services, energy and leisure sectors"
  • Top Ranked Chambers UK 2018, 2019
  • The Legal 500 United Kingdom Leading Individual 2015

Member, R3 Business Recovery Professionals

Mark Wood

Partner

Senior Office Partner

Mark Wood

Partner

Senior Office Partner

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