An Audience With

Latham’s Mark Austin: ‘This lazy trope that New York is the right market for everybody is wrong’

The veteran of three reviews of London’s listing problems is working on an elevator pitch to persuade investors that the UK market is now ‘match fit’

Meet the man on a mission to revive the City's capital markets
Meet the man on a mission to revive the City's capital markets Photo: Danilo Agutoli for FN

On 29 May 2023, Mark Austin was lying in a hospital bed. The Freshfields partner was scheduled to have heart surgery the following day, and messaged contacts to let them know he’d be off-grid for a while.

Just 10 days later, he announced he was joining rival law firm Latham & Watkins.

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