Mark Allen
Senior Lawyer
Senior Associate
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Auckland
Bio
Mark Allen is a corporate and commercial lawyer who regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions, business structuring, and outsourcing transactions. Mark has extensive experience having worked on national and cross-border transactions in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Mark works across a broad range of sectors, including technology, utilities, infrastructure, transport, energy, insurance, and manufacturing. He regularly works with business owners, founders, private investors, listed and private corporates, offshore acquirers and growth companies.
Alongside his transaction practice, Mark has a strong focus on helping clients develop, protect and commercialise intellectual property. He advises on IP ownership and structuring, technology and product development arrangements, licensing, distribution, SaaS and technology contracting, joint ventures and broader commercialisation strategy. He works with clients to transform ideas and technology into scalable contractual frameworks that support growth, investment and market entry.
Recognition
Qualifications
- LLB, BCom – University of Canterbury
- Admitted in New Zealand – 2005
Work highlights
Acted for:
- GSA Insurance Brokers' on its acquisition of Coverforce Insurance Brokers in Australia, a transaction reported as increasing GSA’s scale to more than 120 brokers and more than A$500 million in gross written premium;
- a large listed Hong Kong energy corporation on the acquisition of a majority stake in a New Zealand energy infrastructure business;
- Andersen Group Inc. on the acquisition of Andersen NZ, as part of Andersen’s international expansion across key developed and growth markets;
- Banyan Software on the New Zealand aspects of its acquisition of MedTech Global, a leading healthcare technology provider to the Australian and New Zealand markets;
- Pavlovich Coachlines on its sale to Ritchies Transport;
- a purchasing consortium on the acquisition of a water treatment products business;
- complaints raised by the Commerce Commission in respect of various issues of a public company’s compliance with New Zealand’s Unfair Contract Terms regime;
- a mid-sized finance business on its takeover, including takeovers code, foreign investment approvals, employee share and option schemes, and assisting with its IPO strategy;
- the outsourcing of various business process outsourcing matters internationally for a large UK listed business, and managed the global roll-out to the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions;
- provided legal oversight on the downstream retail and credit division of a major international oil company, covering in excess of 200 retail sites.
