Mark Bridges
Farrer & Co

Mark Bridges joined Farrer & Co in 1978 and has been a partner since 1985. Mark's practice includes international estate and succession planning, inward investment into the United Kingdom and a domestic practice. In 1998 he was appointed the Solicitor to the Duchy of Lancaster, and in 2002 as Private Solicitor to HM The Queen.

Mark is a director of a number of trust companies both in the United Kingdom and overseas. He is a member of the Trust Law Committee, the STAR Group, the ITPA, the IBA, STEP and an Academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.

He is a Governor of the Purcell School, Sherborne School for Girls and of Hanford School. He is also Treasurer of the Charity Music in Country Churches, and a Trustee of the University College London Hospitals Charity.

He frequently travels to visit clients and regularly lectures in the United Kingdom and overseas on a variety of trust related topics. He edited "International Succession Law" for Tolleys (2001) and contributed a chapter to a companion volume on the Planning and Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts (2001).