Lawyers in England

Stephen Diosi

Stephen is a Partner in the Employment department and leads the Incentives team. He has significant experience advising on the strategy, design, implementation and compliance of UK and global employee incentive arrangements including long term incentive plans, all-employee share plans, HMRC tax-advantaged plans, management incentive plans and growth share and joint ownership plans. Stephen also advises on all related corporate, tax and trusts aspects, corporate governance issues, disclosure of directors' remuneration and share dealing regulations. In addition, Stephen works with companies on the impact corporate actions have on their incentive arrangements and has acted on many public takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, public to private transactions, initial public offerings, capital raising activities and private equity deals. He works with a wide range of businesses across several industry sectors including financial services, natural resources, entertainment, aerospace and transport. He acts for companies that are listed on the London Stock Exchange, AIM and overseas exchanges, together with private equity houses, private companies and owner-managed businesses.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Stephen Drewitt

Stephen specialises in private equity, acting predominantly for private equity sponsors and other institutional investors. He is the author of a chapter in both “The Private Equity Review” and “Private Equity Exits”.

Macfarlanes LLP

Stephen Duffield

Described as “simply a super patent attorney” (JUVE 2023), Stephen is a Partner in the Life Sciences team and manages the firm’s Munich office. He is qualified as a patent attorney and as a solicitor, and is a registered UPC representative. Stephen brings each of these perspectives to the matters on which he works, where he has a particular focus on biological therapies. This work is often contentious and relating to therapies involving complex immunological aspects in their mechanisms of action. Stephen is regularly entrusted by clients with matters relating to blockbuster products. These clients recognise his key skills in distilling the complexities of their matters into easily understood arguments for use at the EPO, and in courts and patent offices across Europe. In this respect, industry guides remark that Stephen is “incredibly smart, creative and responsive” and “very knowledgeable about EPO opposition issues and strategy” (IAM Patent 1000 2023). Stephen is regularly involved in UK and pan-European litigations, attacking and defending patents in EPO opposition proceedings and on appeal, and pressure testing patents before their assertion in litigation, including in the anti-TNF, anti-IL12, anti-IL23, anti-PCSK9, anti-IL4R and anti-CD38 fields as well as the immuno-oncology arena (immune checkpoint inhibitors and T-cell retargeting bispecifics). He also has an extensive prosecution and advisory practice relating to patent applications in Europe and across the globe, SPCs and regulatory exclusivities, encompassing biosimilars. Stephen is often sought out by clients for due diligence and freedom to operate matters, for his ability to assemble and focus teams to achieve results in commercially critical timeframes. He has a real understanding of the business drivers of his work, which was developed through a six-month secondment working in-house at the US patent law department of a global pharmaceuticals company. When qualifying as a patent attorney, Stephen was awarded the prestigious Gill Prize for achieving the highest overall mark in his final UK qualification exams, as well as the Michael Jones Prize for achieving the highest mark in the finals level patent prosecution paper. Earlier, Stephen was awarded the Bill Caro Prize for the highest mark when passing the Certificate in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University of London.

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Stephen Eastley

Stephen is a Senior Associate commercial litigation lawyer. He specialises in advising clients on a wide range of contractual disputes, debt and asset recovery claims. Stephen has experience in both High Court and County Court litigation and alternative dispute resolution including mediation. Stephen advises national and international clients on a range of instructions as part of a team of lawyers based in the firm’s Solent office. Stephen’s advice centres on achieving commercially productive results for clients and clients have praised both his proactive attitude and business orientated advice. Recent work undertaken by Stephen includes: representing a high-street bank’s commercial brand in recovery of secured lending against a property worth £1.3 million; acting for national building materials group in relation to a director’s guarantee of company credit; and advising a worldwide recruitment agency on a tri-party recovery and indemnity claim.

Shoosmiths LLP

Stephen Elam

Partner

Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP

Stephen Evans

Stephen is a Senior Associate in our Succession & Tax department. Stephen assists clients with the drafting of Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney, obtaining grants of representation and administering estates. Stephen works with individuals requiring a Will or a Lasting Power of Attorney. He also assists executors and beneficiaries. Stephen has been involved in reviewing and releasing Wills generated from online interviews on behalf of a major provider of online Wills. This work included raising queries and discussing amendments with customers and answering telephone enquiries about the service.

Blake Morgan LLP

Stephen Felstead

Joint Office Location Head

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Stephen Foster

Head of Divorce and Family department. Head of Department Stephen Foster is praised in The Times “for leading Stewarts’ phalanx of family law lawyers to the top of the pack” and as an “intelligent and superbly talented litigator”. The Legal 500 says he has assembled a “scarily bright” team noted for its knack in “unravelling complicated trust structures and assets hidden behind companies”. His clients include figures from the City and entrepreneurs, and many of his cases have an international dimension including Europe, the US and the Middle-East. Stephen is very adept at dealing sensitively with all aspects of children’s matters, including international relocation.

Stewarts Law LLP

Stephen Fuller

Stephen is an experienced corporate lawyer who has been representing businesses and their owners for over 30 years across a wide range of sectors. He has extensive expertise in transactions with a cross-border element and advising foreign companies on corporate transactions that require English legal advice. Entrepreneurs in particular, frequently turn to Stephen for his expertise in sales and purchases of owner-managed companies and for re-organisations, management buy-outs and buy-ins. Whilst Stephen’s practice is generally sector-agnostic, he is well known for the work he has done involving estate agencies throughout the UK.

Keystone Law

Stephen Gawne

Partner

Collyer Bristow LLP

Stephen George

Browne Jacobson LLP

Stephen Goldstraw

Consultant dealing with corporate tax, VAT and stamp duty.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Stephen Goodman

Stephen is an associate and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in the travel litigation team at Slater and Gordon in Manchester. He specialises in claims involving clients who have been injured or become unwell abroad. Stephen was previously employed by one the UK’s largest tour operators as a defendant lawyer. He now specialises in claimant work making full use of the knowledge and experience he has gained, to achieve the best settlements he can for his clients. Stephen is a key member of his department and in addition to pursuing claims on behalf of his clients, manages a team of Fee Earners whom he provides with assistance, training and career development on a daily basis.

Slater and Gordon

Stephen Green

Partner dealing with trust, taxation and commercial law.

Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove

Stephen Hamilton

Stephen helps businesses to achieve their commercial objectives. His work focuses on corporate finance for companies and other commercial clients. He has significant experience in advising in relation to capital markets (both main market and AIM) including fundraisings, initial public offerings, mergers and aquisitions and corporate restructurings. Recent work includes a £350m bond issue, the £75m sale of a UK utility company, a £40m AIM IPO for a technology company, a placing and open offer for an expanding LSE listed tech company, a pre-IPO fundraising for an award-winning high growth tech business and the takeover of an AIM listed company. Stephen is a member of the Quoted Companies Alliance Legal Technical Committee.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Stephen Harker

Managing partner specialising in commercial property and residential work.

Dawson Cornwell LLP

Stephen Heath

Stephen Taylor Heath is a FSE Partner(Head of Sports law) and specialist Sport and TMT Lawyer. Stephen has specialist experience of multi territory media rights agreements particularly broadcasting and sponsorship rights. Stephen also has expertise in protecting client’s commercial interests particularly through Ambassador, Sponsorship and Image Rights agreements. Recent matters have included the rights agreements for Tyson Fury v Deontay Wilder/Anthony Joshua, assisting BT with a Blocking Order against Pirate streams and Ambassador agreements for clients with sportsmen such as Trent Alexander Arnold and Anthony Joshua. He also acted for Prenetics EMEA in their commercial contracts with the EPL, ECB, SoccerAid, the RCA and Matchroom Sport to conduct Covid testing as part of the return to professional sport after lockdown.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Stephen Hedley

Partner and head of real estate, dealing with investment transactions and day to day asset management. Experience gained acting for large institutional investors, private property companies and investors, leisure companies and major lending institutions as well as smaller companies and individuals across all sectors including offices, industrial and trade parks. A particular focus is on retail investment and asset management. Lead partner acting for Kennedy Wilson, development Securities, AEW and Pradera.

Cripps

Stephen Heinemann

Stephen Heinemann specialises in both legal and sponsor services to venture capital trusts. He is a partner in the firm's Capital Markets team. Stephen is a solicitor advising on a range of company and commercial matters including sale and purchase agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. Howard Kennedy is the only English law firm authorised to provide both legal and sponsor services to its clients and since 2005 Stephen has specialised in acting for the firm's venture capital trust clients in both of these capacities.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Stephen Hill

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Stephen Hodsdon

Partner, UK Patent and Chartered Trade Mark Attorney, Litigator

J A Kemp

Stephen Homer

Partner in the Construction team

Ashfords LLP

Stephen Hughes

Stephen is Chair of the Real Estate department with over 20 years' experience. His expertise lies in commercial real estate work including high value portfolio acquisitions and disposals, development work, joint ventures and structuring. He acts for a broad range of UK and overseas clients including Delancey, Capital & Counties Properties PLC (Capco), Almacantar and The London Business School. His transactions often lead to his involvement with a cross-departmental team providing advice on associated tax, finance and corporate issues. Recent matters include advising Delancey, Qatari Diar, APG and Oxford Properties on the purchase and long-term management of East Village in east London. The Village, adjacent to the Olympic Park, currently has over 2,800 homes (housing 6,000 people) with around 2,000 more homes planned. Stephen also acts for Capital & Counties Properties PLC in relation to its Covent Garden portfolio.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Stephen Humphreys

Partner in the Planning team

Ashfords LLP