Mark Culbert is a Partner at Northwall Cyber. Having qualified as a solicitor in 1995, he brings decades of experience in intellectual property, technology, and media disputes, together with substantial high-value litigation and board-level commercial judgement.
Before joining Northwall, Mark was a Partner in a large regional firm and then joined Osborne Clarke's City office in 2000. In 2006 he co-founded the niche technology legal practice iLaw, where he leads the dispute resolution team, ranked highly in Legal 500. He is also Managing Director at Culbert Ellis.
His core areas of expertise are intellectual property, technology, and media disputes. He represented eight corporate clients in one of the largest disputes in London, the six billion US dollar litigation between JSC BTA Bank and Mukhtar Ablyazov and others, and he also worked on the Tajik Aluminium litigation in London, a 450 million US dollar fraud claim.
Mark acted for the successful party in the reported Court of Appeal case of BWE and Jones and for Domino's Pizza in its High Court dispute with UEFA following the Euro 2004 Finals. His clients include many household names and high-profile individuals.
He has served on the board of an AIM-listed mineral exploration company. He was also Chairman of the IT Disputes Group of the Society for Computers & Law for over twenty years. He is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, an ADR Group Accredited Mediator, and an Associate Member of the Australian Risk Policy Institute.
Mark has experience both in executing search and seizure orders and acting as a court-appointed supervising solicitor.