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Mark Rondel

Partner in Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation

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Mark Rondel is a 35-year qualified Dispute Resolution solicitor. He trained, qualified and was retained as a partner at a niche London litigation practice, and has since been a partner at Stewarts Law LLP, Picton Howell LLP and then EMW Law LLP.

His focus is on corporate disputes. He has worked for clients in a broad range of industry sectors, ranging from PLCs, to SMEs, Family offices and high net worth individuals.

Mark’s main areas of expertise are shareholder disputes including unfair prejudice proceedings; warranty claims; professional negligence claims against a variety of professionals and general contractual claims including commercial disputes in relation to breach of contract and breach of confidence, partnership disputes and declaratory relief and judicial review proceedings. He also has some expertise in contentious insolvency in particular claims against directors including Director’s disqualification proceedings.

Mark's Experience

  • Acted for Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Levi Roots in successfully defending a breach of contract and breach of confidence claim brought by alleged former business partners – Bailey & Anor v Levi Roots Reggae Reggae Sauce Limited and others (2011) EWHC 3098 (CH)
  • Acted for the successful Defendants in striking out a £2m breach of warranty claim – Viridor Waste Management v Cutts and others (2016) EWHC435 (QB)
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  • Acted for the successful Claimant in obtaining damages for breach of contract against Friends Life who were found to have wrongfully avoided paying out under a permanent health insurance policy, as they wrongfully suggested that Mr Miley was faking his chronic fatigue syndrome – CT Miley v Friends Life Ltd (2017) EWHC 3290 (QB)
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  • Acted for Taxi App, FreeNow as interested party and intervener in Judicial Review proceedings UTAG v TFL and UBER London Ltd v TFL and UTAG (2021) EWHC (Admin)
  • Acted for fintech company Ebury Partners Ltd both in successfully defending a claim by former employee relating to EMI share options and in a second claim alleging the initial judgement should be set aside as it was wrongfully alleged to have been procured by fraud. The first claim was dismissed with cots, the second was also dismissed but with indemnity costs and also marked as totally without merit – Golda Ajayi v Ebury Partners Limited (2025) EWHC 3150 (comm)
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Mark is married with 3 grown up children. He enjoys country and other longer distance walks with his wife and their dog, as well as mountain biking, snowboarding, and wing foiling.

Mark is also an active skydiver, holding a number of Guinness World Records for large formation skydiving, and also competes at international level in formation skydiving. He is an experienced  BASE jumper.

 

LLB (Hons)

Testimonials

“Mark Rondel is just great!”

Private client

“Mark Rondel was an excellent solicitor. He was very supportive during our multi-year litigation-available to answer our questions, highly responsive and effective. We won both our cases at trial, so we were delighted with the results and his dedication.”

Director Rangemaster Precision Arms Limited

“I dealt with Mark Rondel who I think is excellent”

Corporate client

“Mark Rondel is very personable and pleasant to work with. He is invested in his clients and passionate about getting the best results for them.”

Corporate client

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