Mark Grant

Practice Areas

Mark has a broad commercial litigation practice. First as a solicitor-advocate and then at the bar, he has acted on a range of disputes in the courts, in arbitration (domestic and international) and at mediation.

He has wide experience of interim applications including freezing and other injunctions. He deals regularly with more specialist areas such as arbitration, fraud, professional negligence, warranty claims, restraint of trade, company/shareholder disputes, sports disputes and agency claims. Reported cases include: First Personnel Services Ltd v Halfords Ltd [2016] EWHC 2155 (Ch) (disclosure, amendments to statements of case) and [2016] EWHC 3220 (Ch) (contractual transfer fees for employment agency); Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency Ltd v Thermabead Ltd [2018] EWHC 3895 (Ch) and [2019] EWHC 851 (TCC) (arbitration); Ourspace Ventures Ltd v Halliwell [2019] EWHC 3475 (Ch) (jurisdiction); English Football League v Sheffield Wednesday FC (SR/372/2019) (arbitration relating to the sale of Hillsborough stadium); Nash v Lygren [2020] EWHC 3088 (Ch) (breach of injunction in shareholder dispute); AAH Pharmaceuticals v Jhoots Healthcare [2020] EWHC 2524 (Comm) (disclosure pilot principles); Midland Living CIC v Prospect Housing Ltd (strike-out/summary judgment) [2021] EWHC 2622 (Comm); and Three Counties Agricultural Society v Persons Unknown [2022] EWHC 2708 (KB) (persons unknown injunction).

Career

MA (Oxon), PPE, First Class Honours - Somerville College, University of Oxford. Also awarded scholarship (Clothworkers). From 2006, practised as a solicitor with an international firm before coming to the bar in 2015.

Professional Memberships

Midland Chancery and Commercial Bar Association.

Publications

Mark has written for LexisNexis and Lexology.

Personal

Piano, tennis, travel, technology.