Mark Cummings
Partner
Hong Kong
Mark works in the Global Corporate and Investment Funds groups of our Hong Kong office, which he joined in 2013.
He specialises in corporate work with an emphasis on advising private equity and investment funds and managers on a range of legal issues. This includes forming and structuring investment funds, acquisitions and disposals, regulatory and governance matters, restructuring, winding up and terminating funds.
Mark also advises on all aspects of corporate work, including:
Mark also advises on all aspects of corporate work, including:
- mergers and acquisitions
- joint ventures
- pre-IPO investments
- capital markets
- forming and running special purpose investment vehicles
- public and private offerings of debt and equity involving Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands structures.
Experience and recent work
Mark previously worked for another leading offshore firm in Hong Kong. Before that he was a funds and corporate law specialist at a law firm in the Cayman Islands, and for a global law firm in Ireland. He also worked in the London corporate teams of Bird & Bird and CMS Cameron McKenna.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Cayman Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- Ireland (not practising)
- Bermuda, Registered Associate
- England & Wales (not practising)
- New York (not practising)
- Northern Ireland (not practising)
Education:
- Upper second class Law Degree, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- Professional Legal Studies, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
2023 Legal 500 Asia Pacific - Recommended Lawyer
2020 Who's Who Legal - Private Funds (Recommended Lawyer)
2019 The Legal 500 Asia Pacific - Recomended Lawyer - "The 'very professional' Mark Cummings, who excels at handling corporate and fund formation work for private equity sponsors and hedge funds"
2019 Who's Who Legal - Private Funds (Recommended Lawyer)
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