Mark Lewis graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1981 with an honours degree in law. He completed his articles and initial training with Freehill, Hollingdale & Page, one of the major law firms in Australia, and was admitted to practise there as a barrister and solicitor in December 1982. Mark is also admitted to practise in England and Wales as well as the Cayman Islands.

Mark also gained extensive international experience working with Denton Hall in London and Japan, working in the Banking, Corporate Finance and Entertainment Law Departments. He subsequently moved to Theodore Goddard where he worked on international asset finance and capital markets transactions in Russia, Poland and Hungary.

Mark joined Walkers after graduating with a Master of Laws degree (LLM) in corporate finance and international taxation from Cambridge University in 1993 and now specialises in all aspects of mainstream corporate work and particularly investment funds and asset finance. He is a Notary Public. Mark is Senior Investment Funds Partner at Walkers and the joint head of the firm's Investment Funds team with Jonathan Tonge.  Mark has spoken at numerous conferences on various aspects of both private equity and hedge funds.

Mark is listed as a leading Cayman Islands lawyer in Chambers Global and the International Who's Who of Private Funds lawyers. 

Email: mark.lewis@walkersglobal.com