Mark Elder

Mark is head of TLT's Birmingham office and an experienced commercial litigator with extensive experience of complex commercial disputes.

He advises a range of large PLC and privately owned businesses in a variety of disputes including breach of contract claims, corporate warranty claims/disputes, sale of goods of disputes, IP/IT (including software) disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes and professional negligence. Over the last few years, he has advised on a significant number of breach of restrictive covenant and breach of confidentiality issues which has involved senior personnel and/or team moves.

Mark has vast experience of seeking urgent injunctive relief, including advice relating to search and seize, freezing injunctions/orders, dawn raids and acting as Court appointed supervisor on Search Orders.

Mark also specialises in all aspects of contentious media law, including defamation, breach of confidence, privacy and copyright and acts for both claimants and defendants.

He is a trusted adviser to his high-profile client base particularly advising high net worth individuals, professional footballers and celebrities in the sport and entertainment industry on a wide variety of reputational management issues, defamation, privacy and crisis management. He leads the team on all phone hacking, e-mail interception and computer hacking claims against tabloid newspapers, corporations and private individuals and has in-depth knowledge of this area.

Mark is an ADR Group accredited mediator and a keen advocate of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process as a means of resolving disputes. He is a member of the Professional Negligence Lawyers' Association and a member of the Birmingham Law Society Dispute Resolution Committee.