Mark Anderson
Mark is an English solicitor (attorney)
and the founder of Anderson & Company.
Mark drafts, negotiates and advises on commercial agreements, particularly those that concern intellectual property rights or research & development. He also advises more generally on business law issues, involving specialists (eg trial advocates, patent attorneys, etc.) as appropriate.
He has extensive experience of advising clients in various technology sectors, including life sciences, information and communications technology, and engineering. He also has experience of advising clients in non-technology sectors, particularly those where intellectual property can be important, including publishing, financial services and FMCG. He is recommended in Chambers Directory 2010 as a leading UK lawyer (Band 1) in the field of life science transactions. He is a Certified Licensing ProfessionalTM.
His clients include commercial companies (both publicly-quoted and private companies, including SMEs), professional service firms (including overseas law firms), universities, hospitals and other charities, funding bodies, investors, and individual inventors and entrepreneurs. His clients are based mostly in England and Wales, but also in Continental Europe, North America and Australasia. See our recent transactions.
As well as advising clients, Mark accepts instructions as an arbitrator or mediator of IP disputes, including disputes concerning the interpretation or performance of IP-related contracts. He is accredited as an arbitrator by the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Mark regularly speaks at conferences in Europe on intellectual property and commercial law subjects, including contract drafting. He is a guest lecturer at the London Business School. See our training services.
Together with other members of Anderson & Company, Mark is the author of several legal textbooks, loose-leaf works and volumes of legal encyclopaedias in the areas of intellectual property and commercial law. See our books.
Mark is a member of:
- the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association;
- the Intellectual Property Working Group of the Law Society of England and Wales;
- the Lambert Group on University Research Contracts;
- the Business to Business Licensing Group, formed by the UKIPO (UK Patent Office);
- the Society of Legal Scholars.
