Mark Watson-Gandy

bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring, corporate, banking and finance

Mark Watson-Gandy was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1990. He was a Junior Counsel to the Crown from 2000 to 2012. In 2013, he was also called to the Eastern Caribbean Bar (British Virgin Islands), where he is on the panel of government counsel, and in 2018 to the DIFC (Dubai) Bar.

He was made a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster in 1999 (where he founded its Corporate Finance Law LLM)

Until September 2025 he served as Chair of the UK Home Office’s Science & Technology Ethics Advisory Group, a non-departmental public body advising Home Office Ministers on ethics in the areas of forensics, biometrics, AI and big data. He was also a member of the Home Office Scientific Advisory Council and the advisory board of NSTiX, the UK government National Security Technology and Innovation Exchange.

Watson-Gandy's books have included “Simple Contract Law”, “Corporate Insolvency Practice” , “Personal Insolvency Practice” and “Watson-Gandy on Accountants”.

He is one of the editors of “Butterworths Corporate Law Service” and “Tolley’s Insolvency Law”.

OBE

UK

2024

KSG

Vatican

2007