Mark Barron

Mark Barron is a corporate technology partner at Taylor Wessing. He's the head of the firm's market-leading inward investment practice. which acts for many of North America's best-known technology and life sciences companies, including approximately a quarter of US-based unicorns. Mark can guide clients looking to establish themselves, often for the first time, in Europe and Asia and often acts as an outsourced GC as they grow and expand. His team helps between 50 and 75 venture-backed US and Canadian corporations set up in Europe each year. Between 2014 and 2018, Mark founded and managed our Silicon Valley representative office. He returned to London in 2018, and now splits his time between the UK firm's London HQ and the startup-focused TechCity office, in the heart of east London's technology cluster.

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A guide for UK startups looking to launch in Europe

Law firm Taylor Wessing’s work with the Mayor’s International Business Programme, and its work day-to-day with VC-backed tech companies has shown that most UK companies look to the US or Asia before Europe when looking at new markets. However, Europe is on our doorstep, and has its own advantages which shouldn’t be ignored. This article by Mark Barron, a corporate technology partner at Taylor Wessing, will cover what you need to think about in choosing Europe as the first stop in your international journey, and a few of the key advantages in doing so.