Mark Vickers is a partner in the finance department in London and a member of the banking group. He specialises in UK and cross-border leveraged finance transactions. He is one of the market's leading experts on the debt funding of public to private takeovers.

In addition, Mark has considerable experience of bid finance, senior and mezzanine financing facilities, structured finance and global syndicated lending.

• Birmingham University (LLB)
• Partner since 1999, previously head of acquisition finance at a top UK law firm (1986-99)