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Mark Cummings

Mark specialises in funds work with an emphasis on advising private equity and investment funds and managers on a broad range of legal issues, including fund formation and structuring, acquisitions and disposals, regulatory and governance matters, restructuring and the winding up and termination of funds.

In addition to his funds practice, Mark also advises in relation to all aspects of corporate work, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets, the formation and operations of special purpose investment vehicles, including LLCs and segregated portfolio companies, and public and private offerings of debt and equity involving Cayman Islands and BVI structures.

Mark joined Walkers in September 2013 and is a member of our Global Corporate & Investment Funds Group.

Experience and recent work

Prior to joining Walkers, Mark worked for another leading offshore firm in Hong Kong and prior to that he acted as a funds and corporate law specialist in a law firm in the Cayman Islands and for a global law firm in Ireland as well as in the London corporate teams of Bird & Bird and CMS Cameron McKenna.

Qualifications

Admitted in: 

  • Cayman Islands
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Bermuda, Registered Associate
  • Ireland (not practising)
  • England and 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

2025 Legal 500 Asia Pacific - Key Lawyer – "Noted for his longstanding corporate expertise, Mark Cummings often advises on joint ventures and the formation of segregated portfolio companies."

2024 Legal 500 Asia Pacific - Key Lawyer

2023 Legal 500 Asia Pacific - Key Lawyer

2023 Who's Who Legal: Recommended – Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR & Macao SAR (Private Funds)

2023 Who's Who Legal: Recommended – Private Funds - Formation

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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