Mark is the Chief Legal Officer at Crossfin Technology Holdings (RF) Proprietary Limited and has some 40 years of general commercial law experience including 37 years of experience in IT law. Mark is responsible for corporate and transactional legal support and also for legal aspects of the Crossfin portfolio. Specifically, Mark is actively involved in mergers and acquisitions, general commercial matters and client related IT law engagements for the provision of technology and services.

While heading up the IT Law Department at Edward Nathan & Friedland, Mark advised the UCS Group (now the Crossfin portfolio) on several transactions then joined UCS Group Limited as Chief Legal Officer in 2008 and since then has been actively involved in providing legal support for the various companies making up the portfolio.

Mark articled at Cliffe Dekker & Todd (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) and then moved into business joining Corporate Merchant Bank Limited early in 1988. Late in 1989, Mark joined Datakor Limited as legal adviser to the group of diversified IT companies held by Datakor and which supplied an entire range of technology and all related support services to clients, from mainframes to personal computers, from operating software to middleware and application software, and covering both bespoke software to packaged software. The Datakor group held the Unisys distributorship and when Unisys reinvested into South Africa in 1995, Mark transferred to Unisys Corporation’s Department of the General Counsel, where he remained until 2002. During his time at the Datakor group and with Unisys, Mark was involved in all group related mergers and acquisitions, general commercial matters and all client related IT law engagements (both public sector and private sector).

Mark joined Edward Nathan & Friedland in 2002 as Head of the IT Law Department and continued in this position until 2008, including through the merger that resulted in Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs (ENS). During this time, Mark advised on a range of local and offshore IT related transactions and customer-related IT law engagements (both public sector and private sector).

Mark was admitted as an attorney in 1988 and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, a Bachelor of Laws degree and a post-graduate Higher Diploma in Company Law, from the University of the Witwatersrand.