Mark Barron

Mark is the head of our market-leading inward investment practice, which advises tech and life sciences companies on international expansion and M&A. He is also the founding partner of our Silicon Valley representative office. Mark sits on Taylor Wessing's executive board as head of clients and innovation and strives to ensure we are the most sector-focused and client-centric law firm in the world.

Mark has been with Taylor Wessing since 1999, and now leads a team which acts for many of North America's best-known technology and life sciences companies, including approximately a quarter of US-based unicorns. He is a specialist in cross-border and domestic M&A as well as tax-driven restructurings. Mark can guide clients looking to establish themselves, often for the first time, in Europe and Asia and often acts as an outsourced GC as they grow and expand. His team helps between 50 and 75 venture-backed US and Canadian corporations set up in Europe each year. Between 2014 and 2018, Mark founded and managed our Silicon Valley representative office. He returned to London in 2018.

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1999 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2014 - 2018 Founding partner, Taylor Wessing's Silicon Valley representative office

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1999 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2014 - 2018 Founding partner, Taylor Wessing's Silicon Valley representative office

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Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales 1999

College of Law, Distinction 1997

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Awards

Legal 500 UK 2022

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Experience

Beratung von Hims & Hers, USA beim Erwerb des europäischen Telemedizin Anbieters Zava

Beratung und Koordination eines umfassenden Transaktionsteams in über fünf Jurisdiktionen mit komplexen rechtlichen Fragestellungen zum Erwerb der Zava Gruppe

Press release

Hassan Sohbi

Stephan Doom, Solicitor (England & Wales)|LL.M. (Nottingham)

Rudi Hasenberg

Karolina Lange-Kulmann, LL.M. (Medizinrecht)

Mark Barron

Adam Griffiths

Nicolas De Witt

Zabdaj Pollen

Beratung von Mitel bei der Übernahme von Unify von Atos

Wir haben Mitel, einen weltweit führenden Anbieter von Geschäftskommunikationslösungen, bei der Übernahme von Unify, dem Geschäftsbereich Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) und Communication and Collaboration Services (CCS) der Atos-Gruppe, beraten.

Pressemitteilung

Mark Barron

Dr. Christian Traichel

Gilles Amsallem

Elinor Picton

Dr. Rebekka Krause

Dr. Christian Dietz

Marc André Gimmy

Dr. Klara Pototzky

Dr. Michael Kieffer

Sebastian Rünz, LL.M. (Toronto)

Dr. Adrian Birnbach, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)

Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dipl.-Volkswirt

Dr. Nicolai Wiegand, LL.M. (NYU)

Corcentric acquires SaaS platform

Corcentric, a fast-growing provider of procurement and financial process automation solutions, on its USD32m acquisition of Determine, Inc, a global SaaS solutions provider in Source to Pay and Enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management.

Mark Barron

Gilles Amsallem

Claudia Jonath

Marc Schuler

Christophe Flaicher

Anne-Juliette De Zaluski

Sarah Cole