Stephen Blair

Stephen is a Partner and Solicitor and head of both the Corporate Department and the Corporate Restructuring and Recovery Department. With a wide ranging corporate and commercial practice, Stephen acts for wide variety of clients in many sectors including private equity and venture capital funds, sports manufacturers and retailers, property companies, marketing and management consultants, IT companies and businesses in the leisure and entertainment sectors with many clients having an entrepreneurial bias. Stephen’s work ranges from start-ups to long established companies, management buyouts and joint ventures, to advice on constitutional documents and contractual terms and conditions. Stephen has more than 20 years’ restructuring experience, advising on both solvent and insolvent restructuring. Work areas include corporate rescue and turnaround in addition to solvent restructuring, corporate finance. · Weightmans LLP

EnglandCorporate / M&A, Restructuring & Insolvency

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Partner and Solicitor at Weightmans LLP who leads the Corporate Department and the Corporate Restructuring and Recovery Department. He has a broad corporate and commercial practice and more than 20 years' restructuring experience advising on both solvent and insolvent restructurings, corporate rescue and turnaround, and corporate finance across a range of sectors.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&ARestructuring & InsolvencyCorporate FinanceCommercial ContractsPrivate Equity & Venture Capital

Office

England

Weightmans LLP · Stephen is a Partner and Solicitor and head of both the Corporate Department and the Corporate Restructuring and Recovery Department. With a wide ranging corporate and commercial practice, Stephen acts for wide variety of clients in many sectors including private equity and venture capital funds, sports manufacturers and retailers, property companies, marketing and management consultants, IT companies and businesses in the leisure and entertainment sectors with many clients having an entrepreneurial bias. Stephen’s work ranges from start-ups to long established companies, management buyouts and joint ventures, to advice on constitutional documents and contractual terms and conditions. Stephen has more than 20 years’ restructuring experience, advising on both solvent and insolvent restructuring. Work areas include corporate rescue and turnaround in addition to solvent restructuring, corporate finance.

England

Expertise

Private equity and venture capital fundsSports manufacturers and retailersProperty companiesMarketing and management consultanciesIT companiesLeisure and entertainment businessesStart-ups, management buyouts and joint venturesCorporate rescue and turnaround

Education

University of Newcastle upon Tyne — LLB (1987)

Admissions

Qualified as a solicitor, 1990