Mark is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer who acts for a wide range of clients on complex transactions and commercial arrangements, including listed and private companies, government departments and entities, family businesses, international and national sporting bodies, and high profile individuals. He is known for his prompt and commercially focussed advice and ability to manage high-value, high-profile and business critical matters.
Mark has a particular focus on the sports, entertainment, and media industries and is part of Hall & Wilcox’s pre-eminent Sports and Entertainment team.
Mark's practice includes:
- Media Rights & Broadcasting – Structuring and negotiating media rights deals across television, streaming, and digital platforms.
- Procurement and General Commercial Contracting – Drafting and negotiating a wide range of procurement, manufacturing, distribution and other commercial contracts across various sectors.
- Australian Consumer Law - Advising on all aspects of the Australian Consumer Law, particularly the consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms and misleading and deceptive conduct.
- Sports Commercialisation – Advising on licensing, venue hire, major events, sponsorship, procurement, and other event-related commercial arrangements.
- Mergers & Acquisitions – Advising on business and share acquisitions, including the drafting and negotiation of transaction documents.
- Corporate Governance & Structuring – Advising boards and companies on directors’ duties, related party transactions, and corporate structuring.
- Intellectual Property & Technology – Drafting licensing and technology agreements, including for commercialisation and innovation projects.
Mark is a Recommended Lawyer in the 2025 Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide for media and entertainment and is a key member of Hall & Wilcox’s Band 1 Chambers ranked Sports and Entertainment team.
Experience
- Advising numerous sporting bodies on complex, high value media rights transactions across free-to-air television, subscription television and digital platforms.
- Advising a State tourism and major events entity in relation to funding, sponsorship and other agreements to facilitate and support major events in that State.
- Advising a number of State government department and entities in relation to procurement and supply arrangements.
- Advising the owner of a major electricity transmission network on arrangements to implement third party operation and maintenance of the network and the subsequent transfer of those arrangements.
- Leading a corporate restructuring project for a prominent national sporting organisation.
- Assisting a brewery on all aspects of its operations, including structuring, capital raising, and drafting brewing and supply contracts.
- Advising an ASX listed baby formula and food manufacturer in relation to its domestic and international distribution and supply agreements.
- Advising a large automobile manufacturer in respect of their procurement and supply chain agreements.
- Drafting and negotiating the naming rights agreement for a large stadium owned and operated by the client.
- Advising a prominent Australian stadium on its venue hire agreements, including for major international sporting competitions.
- Advising a prominent live music venue in relation to its venue hiring agreements, sponsorship agreement and supply agreements.
- Drafting rules and regulations for one of Australia’s most prominent sporting codes.
- Assisting sporting teams and individual athletes with the commercialisation of image rights, including in respect of the use in advertisements and other promotional material and compliance with Australia’s taxation laws.
- Drafting IT master services and development agreements for clients involved in various industries, including the superannuation, tertiary education and online auction industries.
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022-2025
Media and entertainment
Law Institute of Victoria Legal Awards 2019
Highly Commended, Rogers Legal Writing Award
- Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association (ANZSLA)