Stephenson Harwood

Alain Gautron

Partner · Asset Finance

Alan Ward

Alan Ward is a partner at Stephenson Harwood specialising in regulatory litigation and investigations. He advises financial institutions and corporates in navigating high-profile investigations commenced by agencies such as the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") and Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), along with internal, non-public investigations into allegations of financial and non-financial misconduct and irregularity. His client base includes major banks, asset managers, and trading houses, corporates across sectors and high-profile public bodies, who value his ability to handle their most sensitive and business critical matters. Alan has represented firms, directors, senior managers and traders in many of the most high-profile and significant investigations of the past two decades. He has represented individuals in two of the largest insider dealing prosecutions commenced by the FCA and acted for senior traders and manager in relation to the global LIBOR and foreign exchange investigations, including successfully representing clients at trial. In 2025 he represented a trader and a corporate, in two separate regulatory actions concerning allegations of market manipulation. Clients value Alan's collaborative and practical approach, which combines deep technical knowledge with a focus on identifying and managing risk in a proactive and proportionate manner. His experience in complex cases underscores his reputation as a trusted advisor in regulatory and corporate crime matters. · Regulatory Litigation

Alexander Tang

Partner · Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency

Alexandre Koenig

Partner · Restructuring

Anna Kwong

Partner · Banking & Finance

Ben Hickson

Ben is a corporate senior associate based in Stephenson Harwood’s Myanmar office. He advises on diverse and substantial market entry projects and is experienced in navigating the investment regulatory framework, having advised leading investors on a wide range of projects (notably in the real estate, insurance and telecommunications sectors).

Boriana Guimberteau

Partner · Intellectual Property

Chinar Zaidi

Managing Associate · Banking and Finance

Clotilde Billat

Partner · M&A

Danny Kan

Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions

Diwakar Agarwal

Partner · Corporate

Dorothy Siron

Partner · Asset Tracing

Elise Dufour

Elise Dufour is a partner in the intellectual property, tech and data practice, specializing in new technology law. Elise advises French and international clients on their digital projects, both in consulting and litigation. Her expertise covers key areas such as data valuation and security (personal and non-personal), IT project management (cloud computing, artificial intelligence, SaaS, open source) as well as digital transformation strategy and the protection of online intangible assets (e-reputation, AdWords policy, domain name strategy and recovery). She also supports her customers in the development of e-commerce projects, whether for websites or mobile applications. · Intellectual Property Law

Elton Chan

Partner · Shipping Finance

Emily Aryeetey

Partner · Employment Law

Emily Daly

Associate · Employment Law

Emily Li

Partner · Litigation

Emmanuelle Corcos

Partner · Financial Regulation

Evangeline Quek

Office Managing Partner, Greater China · Commercial Dispute Resolution

Evelyne Bagdassarian

Partner · Tax

Ezio Dal Maso

Partner · Shipping Finance

Florent Rigaud

Partner

Gaëtan Rogeau

Partner · Real Estate

Gregg Johnston

Gregg is the head of the Singapore based shipping and offshore finance team. Gregg acts on many of the highest profile transactions in the Asia Pacific region and is one of a few "go to" international ship and offshore finance lawyers with a focus on Korea. He acts for major ship financing banks and ship owners and has deep experience in all facets of shipping and offshore finance including syndicated lending, export-credit backed financings, FSRU financing, sale and leaseback transactions, loan portfolio sales, restructuring and workouts and enforcement work. · Shipping Finance

Guillaume Briant

Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions

Hadeel Hussein

Managing Associate · Dispute Resolution

Helen Rhind-Hufnagel

Helen is an M&A specialist advising on cross-border transactions across Southeast Asia, often involving European and US parties. Clients respect Helen's pragmatic, commercial approach whilst remaining astute to cultural sensitivities. Helen also advises extensively on compliance issues across the region, in particular anti-money laundering and anti-bribery. · Cross-Border M&A

Hongkai Zhou

Partner · Asset Finance

Huay Yee Kwan

Huay Yee is a shipping and offshore finance partner. She has a long track record of advising on high value and complex transactions for clients. Her experience encompasses a wide range of asset classes including offshore assets and maritime containers. Huay Yee has experience representing lenders, owners, private equity houses and lessees, advising them on international financing transactions including export credit supported financings and tax-leveraged leasing structures. Additionally, she has also advised clients on international security enforcement actions and restructurings, particularly those arising from insolvency and corporate rehabilitation proceedings. · Shipping Finance

Ian Childs

Partner · Civil Litigation

Isabelle Dauzet

Partner · Employment Law

Ivan Ng

Partner · Shareholder Disputes

Iwan Walters

Partner · Projects

James Baldwin

Managing Associate · Arbitration

Jamie Stranger

Partner · Cross-Border Restructuring and Insolvency

Jane Ng

Partner · Corporate

Jay Tai

Jay is a partner in the corporate department. His practice focuses on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and complex corporate and commercial transactions. · Private Equity

Jay Ze

Partner, Stephenson Harwood LLP · Corporate

Jean-Julien Lemonnier

Partner · Competition Law

Jeffrey Tanner

Jeffrey is a partner who is recognised as a leading transactional lawyer known for his expertise in banking, finance and marine and energy transactional matters. · Banking

Joan Tan

Joan is a managing associate in the shipping and offshore finance team in Singapore. She has a key focus in PRC leasing and regularly assists on complex multi-jurisdictional loan and sale and leaseback transactions involving top-tier PRC lessors and major banks. In addition to vessel financing and leasing matters, she is also experienced in related matters involving vessel sale and purchase and vessel and mortgage registrations/deletions in various jurisdictions. Joan's principal area of practice includes other non-contentious shipping transactions and extends to general banking and finance matters. Joan also contributed to the fourth edition of the leading ship finance industry handbook, Shipping Finance: A Practical Handbook. · Shipping and Offshore Finance

John Lewis

Partner - Head of Commercial Litigation, Middle East · General Commercial Disputes

John Zadkovich

John advises on a range of energy, trade and finance matters, with particular expertise in international commercial arbitration, investigations and public international law. John has a strong legal and commercial understanding of the trade, energy (including oil and gas, mining/natural resources, hydrogen and renewables), infrastructure and finance sectors. John is experienced in working with most international arbitration rules and recognised institutions, including ICC, LCIA, SIAC, LMAA, HKIAC, CIETAC and UNCITRAL, and frequently appears as counsel before arbitral tribunals. He has also advised clients regarding regulatory and internal investigations and appeared as counsel before regulatory tribunals. John’s clients range from sovereign states, state owned entities, and multinational and domestic companies, to trading houses, private equity firms and family offices. He has more than 20 years of legal experience across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, having previously worked at Australian, English and American law firms, including six years in Hong Kong.

Jonathan Goacher

Jonathan is a US-qualified partner, known for his corporate and sanctions work in Asia. He has extensive experience of guiding clients through new market entries, complex M&A, joint ventures and corporate closures across eastern Asia. Clients appreciate his responsiveness and commercially-savvy, solutions-orientated advice, and his particular expertise in many highly-regulated business sectors. · Corporate

Julien Vandenbussche

Partner · Corporate Law

Justin Gan

Justin is a dispute resolution partner that helps clients resolve commercial disputes whether in litigation, arbitration, mediation, or pre-proceedings. He has a strong focus on marine and international trade matters, and also handles non-contentious work in that sector. He is fluent in Mandarin and his matters often bear a Chinese element. · Dispute Resolution

Justin Ma

Partner · Corporate Finance

Katherine Liu

Partner · Financial Services Regulatory

Khurram Ali

Partner

Kiersten Lucas

Partner · Employment Law

Laura Anderson

Managing Associate · Employment

Lijuan Hou

Of Counsel · Private Investment Funds

Mahmoud El-Sayed

Managing Associate · Maritime Law

Maria Chami

Maria is a Managing Associate in our Contentious Trusts and Pensions Dispute Team. She has regularly represented both beneficiaries and trustees in complex (on shore and offshore) trust litigation. Maria also has extensive experience acting in high value professional negligence claims in a pensions context. Maria regularly advises private individuals and corporate trustees on issues relating to disclosure, distributions and breach of trust claims. She also has experience acting in domestic probate claims regarding the validity of will(s). Maria has defended a number of professional negligence claims brought by pension trustees against their advisors. She has advised both PI insurers and the Assured. · Trust Litigation

Mark Lakin

Partner · Maritime

Matthew Seah

Matthew is a partner in our highly ranked and market leading shipping and offshore finance team based in Singapore. His particular focus extends to working with clients on asset finance and restructuring transactions related to a variety of asset classes within the maritime sector. Having built up close to a decade's experience, Matthew is known in particular for his dedication in project managing cross-border transactions, his sensible and commercial approach to developing client solutions and his commitment to helping clients achieve their commercial goals. · Shipping & Maritime

Mazin El Amin

Managing Associate · Shipping

Mehtab Kassam

Managing Associate · Shipping

Melissa Forbes-Miranda

Partner · Corporate

Menelaus Kouzoupis

Partner · Maritime