Personal bio
Mark is an arbitrator and adjudicator specialising in construction, infrastructure, commercial, and property dispute resolution. He has been appointed as sole arbitrator in disputes involving commercial leases, business sales, construction and public infrastructure, commercial, industrial and residential property, and business contracts. Mark graduated BA/LLB from the University of Canterbury (Christchurch) in 1993, and was admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1994. Mark completed a LLM (Hons) at the University of Auckland in 2001. Mark is a Fellow and former Council Member of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ). He is also a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). He is on a number of arbitral panels including the ICC, ACICA and AMINZ. Mark is the an Executive Board member of the Property Law Section of the New Zealand Law Society and the convenor of the Property Disputes Committee of the ADLS. Mark is one of the founding members of FortyEight Shortland Barristers chambers in the Vero Centre at 48 Shortland Street, in the heart of Auckland’s legal and financial district.