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Mark Western

Maples and Calder Hong Kong
work 53rd Floor, The Center 99 Queen's Road Central Hong Kong
Partner, Hong Kong
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Expertise

Mark represents major financial institutions on all aspects of banking law. He specialises in asset and acquisition finance and has worked extensively in the aircraft finance sector.

Professional Background

Mark joined Maples and Calder in 2004. He spent five years in the Cayman Islands office before moving to Hong Kong in June 2009 to serve as one of two lead finance partners for the Asia region. He was previously a partner at White & Case and before that, a partner at Weil, Gotshal and Manges where he completed a secondment to GECAS. He has also worked for other major City firms. Mark is named as a leading aviation lawyer by the International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers and is recommended by the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook.

Education

Mark is a graduate of the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Bar Admissions

1988 - Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (practising as an English solicitor in Hong Kong only).
2004 - Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands.
2010 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands).

Areas of Expertise

Corporate
Finance

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