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Mark Austin advises clients on a full range of public and private securities offerings, as well as M&A and general corporate matters across multiple sectors.

He leverages extensive experience to guide companies and investment banks on:

- Initial public offerings (IPOs)

- Rights issues and open offers

- Placings

- Mergers and acquisitions

- General corporate work

A recognized industry leader, Mark is the former Chair of the Listing Authority Advisory Panel, the practitioner panel that advises the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on primary markets policy and regulation issues. He also sits on the FCA’s Markets Practitioner Panel and The London Stock Exchange’s Primary Markets Group.

Separately, Mark is a member of the UK’s Capital Markets Industry Taskforce (CMIT), which was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in July 2022 and is tasked with reforming the UK’s capital markets, as well as HM Treasury’s Digitisation Taskforce.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer appointed him in October 2021 as the independent chair of the UK Secondary Capital Raising Review, which proposed reforms to the capital raising process for listed companies. He delivered the Review to the Chancellor in July 2022. He also advised Lord Hill on the UK Listing Review in 2021. He received a CBE in the King’s 2024 New Year Honours List for services to the economy.

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Capital Markets: Equity - UK

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Mark Austin is widely recognised as a leading capital markets lawyer. He is equally at home advising issuers and underwriters, and regularly works on some of the largest transactions in the market.

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