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Provided by 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
Bar of England and Wales 1990.
Eastern Caribbean Bar (British Virgin Islands) 2013
DIFC (Dubai) Bar 2018.
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Mark Watson-Gandy is a distinguished barrister, with a considerable restructuring and insolvency practice. He is routinely instructed as sole counsel to handle complex and high value claims, concerning investor disputes, insolvent companies, liquidation and administration. Watson-Gandy is also called to the Bar in the British Virgin Islands and in Dubai (DIFC).
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His technical knowledge is excellent, but he's also very client-friendly and is able to take very complex legal principals and facts and apply them in a digestible way.
He is unflappable and gives good advice to his clients.
He is an excellent advocate and is well versed in insolvency matters and commercial litigation.
His technical knowledge is excellent, but he's also very client-friendly and is able to take very complex legal principals and facts and apply them in a digestible way.
He is unflappable and gives good advice to his clients.
He is an excellent advocate and is well versed in insolvency matters and commercial litigation.