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Mark Lello

Mark Lello

Partner
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Mark Lello

Partner

Mark Lello is a Partner and Head of the Corporate Finance, Commercial and Intellectual Property Department. He qualified as a Solicitor in December 1989 and joined Preston Redman in 2022.

He holds degrees from the Universities of Sheffield (LLB in Law); Bristol (LLM in Commercial Law); and Southampton (MPhil in International Investment Law). He is also a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme 2017 run by the Sad Business School, University of Oxford.

He trained at Slaughter and May in the City and also worked at Clyde & Co in the corporate department before joining Eversheds in the Cardiff/Bristol office as an Associate Partner in their corporate finance team.

Latterly he held senior management roles including Head of Department, Managing Partner and Senior Partner at a Hampshire based law firm and is currently a Director of UK200 Group Limited, a leading professional association of chartered accountancy and law firms.

In the course of his career Mark has led many varied transactions including the sale of an international airport, acted for one of the ‘Big Four’ consultancies on an international technology transfer project and advised on the sale of a global loss adjusting group to a US company.  

Mark is a qualified Corporate Finance professional (CF), recognised by the ICAEW.  Click here to find out more about the Corporate Finance work Mark’s team undertakes.

Mark is also a qualified Associate Trade Mark Attorney (ATMA) and has vast experience in the UK, EU and internationally. For more information about our Intellectual Property work, click here.

Mark is separately qualified as a Notary Public. For more information about the Notarial services Mark offers (which are independent of Preston Redman), click here.

Mark was named as a ‘Stand Out Lawyer’ in the Legal 500 2020 with one client commenting:

‘Mark was readily available at all times to answer questions. This is unusual because, at many firms, you often have to deal with someone more junior.’

In his spare time, Mark runs a book club and plays keyboard in a rock covers band, Hotrocks.