Lawyers in England

Stephen Sasto

Freemans Solicitors

Stephen Scott

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Stephen Searle

Stephen Searle is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Financial Services Litigation team specialising in professional negligence disputes.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Stephen Sharp

Partner

Bivonas Law LLP

Stephen Shotnes

Stephen is a leading practitioner in media and commercial litigation, and in sports litigation/regulatory matters. He is also recognised for his expertise in forensic and investigative work. Before entering the law, he gained a broad experience base as a journalist, a parliamentary researcher, and an editor. His previous experience equips him with a wider perspective on the role of legal issues within the larger context of commerce and public opinion. In the Legal 500 Stephen has been hailed as ‘one of the best forensic solicitors, with a great nose for a case’. He has also been noted for his tenacity and for being ‘sharp as a whip’. He has acted for a wide range of clients, including TV channels/ production companies, a Premier League football club, film finance companies/film makers, celebrities/celebrity management companies, US labor unions, national and local newspapers, book publishers and the government of a South Pacific state.

Simons Muirhead Burton

Stephen Sidkin

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

Stephen Smith

Stephen has 20 years’ experience advising across a broad range of EU and UK competition law matters. Stephen’s practice includes distribution agreements, merger control, cartels and anti-trust investigations, abuse of dominance and competition litigation. Stephen has represented clients before the European Commission and the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK and on appeals both to the European courts in Luxembourg and to the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal. He advised the Société Co-opérative de Production (SCOP), the company operating Eurotunnel’s MyFerryLink business, in its landmark appeal. The case was the first ever jurisdictional challenge under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act to reach the Supreme Court in the UK. Stephen also advised the owners of the Evening Standard and the Independent in the Competition Appeals Tribunal on their successful jurisdictional challenge against the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Support’s attempt to intervene in the sale of a minority stake to overseas investors. More recently, Stephen has been advising Dutch listed home furnishings group Hunter Douglas in respect of the CMA’s Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews of the completed acquisition of 247 Home Furnishings. Stephen is recognised by his clients as adept at providing pragmatic, commercial advice and his experience spans diverse sectors including life sciences, financial services, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and technology. He has also has experience of working inside a regulator, having worked at OFCOM, the UK’s communication regulator, earlier in his career. Stephen is fluent in French and is a former Chair of the Law Society’s Competition Section, where he remains a member of the Committee.

Bristows LLP

Stephen Spence

Stephen is a Partner in our Film & TV Group. A media finance specialist, he advises a wide range of clients on the structuring and completion of complex financing arrangements for film and television. This involves drafting and negotiating the full range of transaction documents for the development, production and exploitation of content. In addition to acting for financiers, Stephen represents film and television production companies on all aspects of development, production and distribution. Having read law at Oxford, Stephen trained at Slaughter and May, qualifying into its corporate finance team. He followed his passion for film and left the City to help set up and run an independent film finance and production company as well as a separate vehicle focusing on the development of film and television content in collaboration with some of the UK’s leading production companies. In 2017, Stephen began working with Ingenious Media as a consultant, acting as lead lawyer and advisor on many of the organisation’s film and television transactions. Stephen has acted as Executive Producer on numerous feature films including the forthcoming Netflix drama “Worth” starring Michael Keaton, the Amazon biopic “Seberg” starring Kristen Stewart, Gurinder Chadha’s “Blinded by The Light”, “Military Wives” featuring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan, “Minamata” starring Johnny Depp, and John Banville’s adaptation of his own Booker Prize winning novel, “The Sea”.

Lee & Thompson LLP

Stephen Sykes

Consultant

Davitt Jones Bould

Stephen Tainsh

Partner and Head of the Medical Technology Group

Capsticks LLP

Stephen Walker

Mediator

S Walker Mediation

Stephen Whitaker

Conveyancing partner with a broad mix of commercial and residential clients including acting for a number of locally based property companies and prominent individuals.

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Stephen Whittaker

Partner with a key focus on real estate finance acting for banks and funds in relation to developments, single asset and portfolio investment transactions and bridging finance. Stephen also acts for developers and investors as well as property end users. His clients include professional practices, housebuilders, retailers and restaurants as well as a golf course operator.

Marriott Harrison LLP

Stephen Woods

Partner

Schjodt LLP

Stephen Woolf

Stephen is a proactive commercial property solicitor who specialises in office, retail, industrial, occupational and investment transactions; sales and purchases of land; and landlord and tenant matters. Stephen often advises clients who are new to the English property market and his experience in this area helps guide them through its intricacies.

Keystone Law

Stephen Young

Stephen is a highly experienced insolvency and restructuring specialist who deals with both corporate and personal insolvency assignments, providing pragmatic and commercial advice. With extensive expertise in all aspects of insolvency litigation, transactional/advisory and cross-border work, his practice focuses largely on advising insolvency officeholders as well as those affected by insolvency, including creditors, lenders, professional, businesses and individuals.Stephen is a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and the Insolvency Lawyers Association. AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Corporate and personal insolvency procedures, including administrations, liquidations, receiverships, bankruptcy, voluntary arrangements, and insolvent estates Contentious insolvency, including antecedent transaction claims Tracing, securing and pursuing claims to recover assets located within the UK or offshore Investigations, including s236/s366 applications Transactional insolvency, including drafting and negotiating agreements for the sale of assets by insolvency officeholders Creditor services, including security reviews, ROT issues, advising lenders, advising landlords and undertaking debt recovery Advising directors on their duties and liabilities, including disqualification proceedings and s216 prohibited names issues Defending statutory demands and petitions, including applications to set aside or injunctions to restrain presentation Company strike-offs and restoration applications

Keystone Law

Steve Allen

Steve heads the Birmingham office of Mills & Reeve LLP. He has extensive experience in dealing with all forms of commercial disputes particularly commercial contract, product liability, breach of warranty and shareholder disputes. He has a particular interest in the automotive, energy, food and IT sectors. In addition to extensive experience in conducting international arbitration disputes, Steve has dealt with disputes in the Commercial Court, the Technology and Construction Court and the Court of Appeal. Steve has also been involved in the settlement of several complex disputes through mediation and other forms of ADR. Steve is the current President of the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce and the winner of the Midlands Leadership in Professional Services Award 2018. He is a former recipient of the International Solicitor of the Year Award from the Birmingham Law Society and is a past President of the New York based British American Business Council. Steve appears in the Birmingham Post’s Power 250 list of the Midlands’ most influential people and is a Visiting Fellow of International Law at Aston University in Birmingham.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Steve Barnett

Steve is a partner in the corporate team at Shoosmiths specialising in advising companies and investors on venture and growth capital investments, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions, mainly in the technology sector. Prior to joining Shoosmiths in March 2017 Steve was a member of the Technology Companies Group in the London office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he regularly completed 20 - 30 investment and other transactions per annum. Examples include: Acting for a money transfer service provider on its series A and series B investment rounds which raised around $140m in aggregate. Acting for a machine learning company on its significant series A investment round. Acting for a company in the online advertising sector on its series seed and series A investment rounds. Acting for a US-headquartered fintech impact investor on various investment rounds. Acting for a UK-focussed institutional seed investor on various investment rounds. Acting on numerous angel investment rounds. Acting for a cloud services provider on its sale to private equity.

Shoosmiths LLP

Steve Beahan

Partner Experienced commercial dispute resolution lawyer. Since June 2011 has headed the commercial litigation department in Sheffield of 25+ lawyers. The department handles over 2,000 claims per year. Deals with most aspects of commercial and property litigation including professional negligence. Experience of High and County Court matters and a keen advocate of ADR having dealt with numerous mediations. Recent appearance in the Court Appeal included the reported case of Brown-Quinn and Webster Dixon LLP v Equity Syndicate Management Limited. In addition to traditional commercial litigation work, Steven and his team are panel solicitors for a number of well-known insurers dealing with disputes for individuals, businesses and charities who have the benefit of a legal expense insurance policy. Leading commentator on legal issues facing SME’s and jointly responsible of for the identification and development of new legal product offerings to SME community for the business legal services division. In recent years has developed bespoke innovative litigation funding solutions for commercial clients.

Irwin Mitchell

Steve Bolton

HR Consultant

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Steve Bousher

Senior Associate dealing with a wide range of tax disputes including: representing a high-profile individual in connection with their participation in what HMRC considered a tax avoidance film scheme, advising a major UK company in relation to its use of a captive insurance company advising a UK property company in relation to the appropriate accounting treatment of a disposal of property advising an offshore property developer in relation to its UK property development activity advising a corporate recipient of an onerous 3rd party information notice advising on ‘unallowable purpose’ advising on COP8 and COP9 enquiries

Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP

Steve Cooke

Senior Partner; Steve is the Senior Partner of the firm. He headed our Mergers and Acquisitions practice from 2001 to 2016. He has a general corporate and M&A and investigations practice, with particular experience in takeover bids and other Stock Exchange related work. Steve acts for a number of listed companies including FTSE 100 clients Aviva, Barratt Developments, BAT, Centrica, Diageo, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, International Airlines Group, Reckitt Benckiser, Rolls-Royce and WPP and FTSE 250 clients Big Yellow Group, Morgan Advanced Materials, Morgan Sindall and Spectris.

Slaughter and May

Steve Eccles

Bevan Brittan LLP

Steve Edge

Senior Consultant; Steve, who qualified with Slaughter and May in 1975, acts for clients across the full range of our practice. Steve advises on the tax aspects of private and public mergers, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures and on business and transaction structuring (including transfer pricing in all its aspects) more generally. He also advises many banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and others in the financial services sector in a wide range of areas. In recent years, Steve has been heavily involved in several large scale interventions under HMRC’s high risk corporates programme and in many in-depth tax investigations of specific domestic or international issues including transfer pricing in particular. He thus has considerable experience of negotiating and dealing with HMRC at all levels. A large part of Steve's practice involves advising non-UK multinationals (particularly those based elsewhere in Europe and in the US) on cross-border transactions and tax issues of various types. In that area of his practice, he works closely with other leading international tax advisers around the world. Being described as “a leader in the tax world” (Chambers, 2021), Steve has consistently been ranked at the top in leading directories, including as a Senior Statesperson for corporate tax in Chambers for the last couple of years. Steve is co-editor of the Transfer Pricing Law Review and contributing editor of the Chambers Global Practice Guide on Corporate Tax, and a patron of the Bridge the Gap campaign of TaxAid and Tax Help for Older People.

Slaughter and May