Mark Anderson KC

"Mark is very good at knowing which types of arguments will go down well with a judge. He makes good predictions and is calm, methodical and persuasive."

"Mark Anderson has a very nice manner about him and can simplify things very clearly."

"Mark Anderson KC is a heavyweight chancery and commercial silk with an established company law practice. He specialises in the resolution of complex disputes for blue-chip clients around the UK. He is adept at tackling shareholder and directorial contentions for a prestigious clientele."

"The client has been consistently impressed with Mark and always describes him as being calm externally but with a mind that is working furiously behind the scenes."

"Very good at knowing which types of arguments will go down well with a judge and how to put arguments to a judge."

"Mark Anderson KC is held in high esteem for his formidable courtroom presence and meticulous attention to detail. He regularly represents clients from the finance, transport and sport sectors in a variety of commercial and chancery disputes, and also has considerable expertise in professional negligence. He is particularly well known for his handling of partnership disputes involving business sale agreements."

"Mark has a very nice manner about him. He can simplify things very clearly and has a nice manner with the judge. You listen to him and he sounds right. He has a very charming manner."

"Mark Anderson KC has a strong practice on the commercial side of chancery work, especially in complex company-related disputes and professional negligence. He also regularly represents clients in partnership disputes and sits as a High Court judge in the Chancery Division. Anderson is particularly noted for his strong court presence and ability to excel on complex matters."

"Mark has great insight into very complex matters."

"Ranked as Leading Silk in Property and Construction."

"Mark is detail orientated, succinct and has an especially great manner with both clients and judges. He gives direct advice and can wade through vast amounts of information to pick out the salient points with quite remarkable speed and accuracy."

"Mark has an incredible ability to cut through mountains of evidence and law to get to the crux of an issue and then deliver that in a succinct and digestible way. He has a great knack for focussing witnesses and clients in on the relevant issues and steering them tactfully away from irrelevant issues."

"An exceptional advocate, meticulously prepared, calm but fearless, and terrifying if you are an opponent. Great presence in court respected by Judges and completely honest. His advocacy – both written and oral – is a paradigm of silky persuasiveness."

"Mark has a superlative ability to explain the most complex points in the most straightforward way, and an enviable talent of obtaining the ear of the court both in his written and oral advocacy."

"Mark is very thorough and has a great attention to detail. One of his best attributes is being able to get to shift through thousands of documents in order to highlight them for submissions. Mark is also excellent with his advocacy, he takes an approach which is to assist the court and go through the various documents so as to ensure they are fully understood."

"Mark gets directly to the heart of the issue. He is so intelligent, grapples with the toughest issues and gets to the heart of them very succinctly and clearly. He is a force to be reckoned with."

"He’s very thorough and detailed. He has the ability to find new and different arguments."

"Mark is very easy to work with, technically sophisticated, very responsive and a great team player."

"Mark thinks outside the box, is tactically very astute and is a very persuasive advocate."

"Mark Anderson is very considered and reasoned. His approach to things is extremely structured, calm and reassuring."

"Mark is brilliant for us."

"Mark is going from strength to strength."

"He is very sensible, very considered and reasonable, and focused on winning the litigation."

"Mark is a calm and clear advocate"

"A go-to counsel for large claims, he provides razor-sharp analysis and clarity in his advice."

"Razor-sharp analysis and clarity provided within his advice. Delivered with complete calmness and always finds the answers. Mark is very responsive and works very collaboratively."

"He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law and is devastatingly efficient as an advocate."

"Mark is very, very easy to work with. He provides clear advice and is very good with technology."

"Analytical, astute and well respected for his advocacy."

"He is personable, thorough, analytical and astute, and well respected in terms of his advocacy."

"Mark is exceptionally sharp, calm, and rational. He is able to devise very good strategies and gives clients a real reassuring presence."

"Mark has a knack for getting to the crux of a complex case quickly. He also has an ability to explain complex and nuanced issues with simplicity and clarity. He is a go-to leader for any complex, high value commercial matter"

"Very calm and measured, Mark is a very experienced and reassuring presence inspiring immediate confidence from clients. Easy to work with."

"Mark is very affable, exceptionally sharp, calm, rational, and has a real gravitas. He is able to devise very good strategies and provides clients with a really reassuring presence."

"He is a very knowledgeable, thorough and helpful barrister with excellent attention to detail."

"Very personable, very responsive, very approachable and very thorough. He provides excellent advice." "He is IT-savvy, which is an enormous help."

"He is a thinker and a serious strategist."

"He has a wonderfully reassuring manner."

"Mark’s presence in the court room, his rapport with judges, and stature as a legal heavyweight is quickly and clearly evident."

"Mark has a formidable intellect. He is clear thinking and produces work of outstanding quality."

"Mark has the invaluable ability to pick out the relevant detail, retain it and then refer to it and its location at a moment’s notice and without missing a beat."

"He has a knack of finding the angle everyone else had missed, and navigates a clear course through the most complex of cases."

"In court, every submission is deployed with just the right amount of weight and colour."

"Calm and measured in approach; he brings intelligence and gravitas to all his cases."

"Quickly distils even the most complex of cases to their fundamentals and helps navigate a clear course."

""An outstanding advocate and the man you want on your team at trial." "A vastly experienced and charming silk who leaves no stone unturned in his preparation, and is ruthless in cross-examination."

"He is a strong performer." "If he is on the other side of the case, it will be hard fought."

"Clearly very bright. I found he got to the heart of the issue very quickly."

"He is absolutely outstanding and his analysis skills are top drawer. He has a fantastic brain and cuts through to the root of the problem."

"He is a brilliant silk."

“A very safe pair of hands for a number of disputes.” “A very formidable intellect. He doesn’t take any prisoners.”

 “His attention to detail is fantastic and he gets to grips with the issues very quickly. He’s great with clients; he says it how it is and does not sit on the fence.” “Extraordinarily bright.”

"“A very good operator.”

"He has a calm and measured approach.” “He’s very thorough and good at looking at a dispute from different angles. He does not gloss over matters; he is a man of great detail and can usually find a very different and unusual angle at which to deal with an issue.” “He has an impressive ability to grasp a very complex case very quickly.”

"A very accomplished advocate who ties the opposition’s witnesses in knots."