Mark Rowlands specializes in complex international and cross-border disputes and investigations with a focus on contentious trusts, corporate and investment structures, and duties of fiduciaries. He also represents clients in cases involving international enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, contractual disputes, and corporate insolvency. Mark has worked on some of the most significant cases in the BVI that have established important precedent in relation to international judgment enforcement and the jurisdictions and powers of the BVI courts, and is regularly instructed by ultra-high-net-worth individuals to advise and act in connection with complex matters engaging multiple jurisdictions and areas of practice.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mark practiced at another leading BVI law firm, where he handled a wide range of litigation including contentious trusts, complex fraud, corporate insolvency, and asset recovery. Before that, he practiced as an independent barrister at the chambers of Sir Geoffrey Cox KC, the former Attorney General of England and Wales, specializing in commercial chancery, insolvency and property law, and from 2014 to 2015 opened and managed an affiliate office of Thomas More Chambers in the Ebene Cybercity, Mauritius, specializing in private-client, insolvency, and arbitration.

Mark is a member of the Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association, the Chancery Bar Association, and the Commercial Bar Association.

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