Mark Weston

Mark joined the firm in February 2016 as a partner and Head of our Commercial, TMT & IP Practice. Before this, he was a partner and Head of the Commercial/IP/IT Team at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP. Before that, he spent several years at Baker & McKenzie in London and Chicago and has also previously been seconded to Hewlett Packard and other technology businesses. He changed role to become a consultant in our London office in January 2024.

Mark is an expert of 30 years’ experience in all aspects of commercial law, technology law, media law, any aspect of digital law and practice, intellectual property and regulatory law. He often acts as a ‘private practice’ in-house counsel for clients and is trusted adviser to many. He also has a niche practice in professional regulatory defence.

Mark has extensive experience in advising on all commercial, regulatory, IP, IT, data, Internet, digital business, technology, media and online services issues He basically does everything needed in the life of a business EXCEPT corporate, real estate, tax and employment. What he does INCLUDES any commercial issues (including resolving disputes); drafting any document or contract needed in any business, arcane or mundane; terms and conditions; policies; distribution; agency; franchising; logistics; manufacturing; licensing; sales and marketing strategies; advice and documentation; compliance and regulatory advice (financial, data, property and others); branding and intellectual property advice, registration and exploitation; new media; publishing; reputation management; social networks; gaming, transmedia, digital content; digital revenue stream improvement; real world and digital storage; hardware/software exploitation (development, licensing, maintenance & distribution, ASP, SaaS, cloud, edge computing); online + social revenue models and income streams; ecommerce (B2B/B2C/B2G); M/S/G-commerce; outsourcing; facilities management; advertising law; freedom of information and UK GDPR/ EU GDPR/data protection/privacy issues; content/media exploitation; social networks and games/gaming platforms; start-ups; blockchain, DLT, smart contracts, NFTs, airdrops; payment and finance businesses/emoney/crypto; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Autonomous vehicles; energy; dispute resolution; business-to-consumer issues and regulatory compliance; AML and MLRO issues; publishing; professional regulatory defence; and non-contentious & contentious commercial, intellectual property, information technology, Internet, media, digital business generally.

Mark achieved the top first in law at University College London in the early 1990s where he achieved his Llb and won every single law prize at UCL (over 25 of them!) in his years there. He also achieved Distinction at the College of Law and while he was studying there, he was also asked (and did) tutor in law at the same time at University College London.