Mark Galazzi
Partner
London
Mark is a member of our Global Finance and Corporate Practice Groups, and heads the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands Asset Finance team in London.
He has extensive experience of advising on both British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands laws, and covers a range of finance and corporate transactions. Those include listings, aviation and maritime finance, and special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) activity.
Mark has a busy lender-side finance practice, and also works with private banks in London and Switzerland focused on aviation, maritime and real-estate financing for high net worth individuals. He joined us in 2012, and has been recognised by Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner.
Mark Galazzi is a client’s dream: responsive, practical and will push internally to get the right result for the client.
Experience and recent work
Mark previously worked in the London and Singapore offices of Linklaters in their Project Finance team. This is also where he trained and qualified, advising public and private companies, asset-management groups, banks and other financial institutions on project, acquisition and structured financings, syndicated and secured bank loans. He also worked on inbound and outbound financing transactions for the energy and infrastructure sectors. As well as this he did a three-month secondment at Rio Tinto plc.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- British Virgin Islands
- England and Wales (not practising)
Education:
- Bachelor of Arts Combined Studies (BACS) History with Politics and Sociology, University of Southampton
- Graduate Diploma in Law, College of Law in Guildford
- Legal Practice Course, Oxford Law School
2025 Legal 500 – Next Generation Partner – Offshore firms in London
2024 Legal 500 - Next Generation Partner - Offshore firms in London
2020 Legal 500 - Rising Star- Offshore firms in London
2019 Legal 500 - "Mark Galazzi is a client’s dream: responsive, practical and will push internally to get the right result for the client."
2018 Legal 500 - (Offshore) Recommended Lawyer Next Generation Lawyer - "Mark Galazzi is 'a go-to person for on-point and commercial BVI legal advice'."
2017 Legal 500 - (Offshore) Recommended Lawyer
2015 Legal 500 UK – Commentators say that Senior Associate Mark Galazzi “is hands on and very effective.’”
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