Avocats – England

Stephanie Brown

Steph is a Principal Associate in the Real Estate team. She specialises in both real estate transactions and non-contentious construction transactions. Steph works on a variety of real estate commercial transactions including negotiating leases for occupiers in the retail and leisure sector and acting for developers and investors on acquisitions and disposals. Within non-contentious construction, Steph drafts and negotiates appointments and building contracts for developers as well as acting for lenders, occupiers and purchasers in construction matters.

Hamlins LLP

Stephanie Buckeridge

Stephanie is a Senior Associate at Gardner Leader. She is based in the Maidenhead office. Stephanie is well known within the Home Counties. This is reflected by the fact that her workload primarily comes from recommendations made by past or current clients. Stephanie is a member of Resolution a national organisation of family lawyers committed to dealing with divorce, separation and other family problems in a non-confrontational manner. She seeks to finds solutions for clients with sensible discussion and negotiation wherever possible. Outside the office Stephanie has a keen interest working within the community. She spent five years with girls aged from seven to eleven on a voluntary basis developing the girls’ self-awareness, confidence and leadership skills. She has also assisted with Business Enterprise within a Local Secondary School.

Gardner Leader LLP

Stephanie Calthrop-Owen

Stephanie is a highly respected family law partner, who specialises in complex financial matters and children cases. Stephanie is a partner in our Family team and has over three decades of experience. She specialises in complex financial matters and children cases, particularly those involving substantial assets and intricate arrangements. Having dedicated her career to family law since 1988, Stephanie has built a reputation for combining technical excellence with unwavering integrity. She guides clients through challenging situations with a focus on achieving practical, balanced outcomes. Her extensive experience spans all aspects of family law, with particular emphasis on high-value financial settlements and sensitive children matters. Stephanie has been consistently recognised as a leader in Family/Matrimonial Law for The South by Chambers & Partners, maintaining a Band 2 ranking for eleven consecutive years through to the current 2026 UK Guide. The Family department is also ranked Band 3 in Family/Matrimonial (The South) in the Chambers & Partners UK 2026 Guide and ranked Band 3 in the Legal 500 UK 2026 Guide. Her commitment to excellence and deep understanding of family law has earned her significant respect from both clients and peers across the region. Her experience includes: Financial remedies for high-net-worth individuals Acting for high-net-worth individuals in complex financial remedy proceedings involving substantial business assets, property portfolios and pension arrangements Supporting parents in complex children matters Representing parents in challenging children matters, including cases involving international elements and complex welfare issues Prenuptial and postnuptial agreement advice Advising on prenuptial and postnuptial agreements for clients with significant assets, including family businesses and inherited wealth

Morr & Co LLP

Stephanie Clarke

Partner in the Personal Injury department. Stephanie has extensive knowledge and a wide breadth of experience in all areas of catastrophic personal injury claims, but with a particular focus on rehabilitation as a priority. She takes a pragmatic, effective and proactive approach to the early resolution of claims and enjoys good working relationships with her opponents. Stephanie is described in The Legal 500 as “absolutely dedicated” and "an impressive solicitor”. Stephanie has over 30 years’ experience in all areas of catastrophic personal injury claims but with a specialist interest in complex catastrophic brain and spinal cord injury claims. She uses her extensive knowledge and numerous contacts to ensure the early provision of interim payments, where appropriate, which in turn allows for rehabilitation and care packages as well as suitable accommodation to be put in place well before the claims are settled. This ultimately helps improve the quality of life for clients and their families. Stephanie has a great empathy for her injured clients and their families and is highly conscientious and tenacious in her representation of them. She has an acute eye for detail as well as tactical nous. Stephanie has particular expertise in all manner of complex brain injury cases, having had an extensive background in employers’ and public liability as well as road traffic cases. She is a highly knowledgeable advocate with an emphasis on timely settlements in a wide range of serious injury claims. Stephanie’s notable past cases include: Hillsborough King’s Cross fire Marchioness disaster Cannon Street rail crash Lyme Bay canoe tragedy Hungerford massacre Bright v Abimbola and MIB (65-year-old, tetraplegic – £4.5m settlement) Gougam (56-year-old brain injury – £4.5m settlement) KYS v Scott Allan (55-year-old, severe brain injury – £5m settlement) AB v MIB (paraplegic – £4.2m settlement) BDI v Murphy and EUI Ltd (36-year-old, severe brain injury – £5m settlement: automatism case )

Stewarts Law LLP

Stephanie Code

Partner in clinical negligence and personal injury team. Varied practice covering a wide range of clinical negligence cases with a focus on maximum severity claims, particularly birth, spinal and head injury and those with complex and novel issues and/or involving children.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Stephanie Dennis

HCR Law

Stephanie Edwards

Stephanie is an Associate Solicitor with experience in dealing with complex liability accident at work cases, road traffic collisions and public liability cases. Stephanie specialises in representing those clients who have suffered life changing injuries, including traumatic brain injury.

Irwin Mitchell

Stephanie Hall

Partner

Davitt Jones Bould

Stephanie Hawthorn

Associate dealing with all areas of family law, including divorce, financial matters, cohabitation disputes, children matters and nuptial agreements.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Stephanie Hill

Partner

Leigh Day

Stephanie Kay

I provide strategic and commercial advice to businesses to help protect their brands and advise on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. With nearly 10 years experience as an IP litigator, my work focusses on the protection, exploitation and enforcement of the full range of IP rights, including trade marks, patents, copyright, moral rights, designs and confidential information. I work with clients across the creative industries and with businesses where IP is their key asset to attain, maintain and enforce. Industry specialist knowledge across the creative sectors, retail, sports, technology, publishing and pharmaceutical companies allows me to work closely with clients' legal and business stakeholders to provide tailored, commercial advice. Alongside IP, I have a passion for diversity in the workforce, and strive to ensure that Lewis Silkin has an inclusive culture that provides equality of opportunity. I am proud to lead the Gender Group of the Diversity, Equity and and Inclusion Board and sit on the DE&I Executive Committee. I have spoken at a number of external roundtable events on gender diversity. I was a Finalist in the Under-35 Lawyer of the Year category in the First 100 Years Inspirational Women In Law Awards 2019 and shortlisted as a Rising Star (Private Practice) at the Women in Law Awards 2020. I am a member of the international Licensing Executive Society (LES), its Young Members Committee Member and of IPSoc, the society for junior IP practitioners in the UK. I completed the University of Oxford Diploma in Intellectual Property and Practice in 2019, receiving a Distinction

Lewis Silkin

Stephanie Kierans

Partner, Commercial Property

Sherrards Solicitors LLP

Stephanie Kingdon

Stephanie has significant experience in all aspects of general property and commercial landlord and tenant disputes, in particular relating to managing and mitigating risk in transactional work. Stephanie advises on a wide range of contentious commercial property matters, and her experience extends to complex, high profile and politically sensitive advisory work. She has dealt with real estate litigation in both the High Court and Court of Appeal and has resolved disputes through mediation and arbitration. In addition to “traditional” property disputes, Stephanie also advises on planning-related matters including judicial reviews and statutory challenges.

Birketts LLP

Stephanie Kosaka

Stephanie works in our Construction Team, based in Leeds, specialising in non-contentious construction matters. Stephanie has over 13 years of experience drafting and negotiating building contracts, professional appointments, warranties and security documents, acting for a variety of clients including developers, public bodies, contractors, consultants, tenants, PFI consortia and financial institutions. Stephanie's recent experience includes: Acting on behalf of Moorfield Group in connection with a circa £24m new build PBSA scheme with a total of 293 units involving debt funding; Acting for a funder of PBSA in key UK University cities advising on building safety aspects and overall security package; Acting for an institutional investor/developer client partnership in relation to single family housing; Advising a large land and property regeneration company on the construction documents for the various phases of its regeneration of a 350-acre site into a mixed-use development comprising circa 1,000 new homes, commercial and community uses. Acting for a logistics developer in relation to developments for logistics property solutions on several UK sites up to 136 acres, involving the construction of multiple warehouse / manufacturing units, utilities works and infrastructure works. Acting for a local authority on the development / regeneration of their town centre buildings to create educational facilities and commercial office space.

Shoosmiths LLP

Stephanie MacPherson

Stephanie specialises in both contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering law. She has experience acting for a broad range of public and private sector clients including employers, financial institutions, NHS Trusts, social housing associations, Universities and Higher Eduction suppliers, developers, contractors, specialist sub-contractors and professionals. She has experience in adjudication, litigation and arbitration as well as less formal methods of dispute resolution, mediation and negotiation. Stephanie has also advised upon construction insolvency, renewable energy and party walls.

Shoosmiths LLP

Stephanie McGarry

Stephanie advises on policy drafting ranging from health and safety to mental health and wellbeing. She advises and assists in relation to police, fire authority, health and safety and coronial investigations and if necessary the safeguarding process which often runs alongside such investigations. She is also familiar with issues affecting large portfolios of commercial buildings and residential premises and has produced bespoke databases for clients to assist them in managing their regulatory responsibilities as landlords, tenants and building owners. Her breadth of knowledge across the regulatory field makes her an invaluable source of expertise for clients. Stephanie regularly represents public bodies, including fire authorities, and advises in relation to the strength of evidence and liability risks both from a prosecution and defence perspective. She has a particular specialism in dealing with large scale and complex health and safety and corporate manslaughter investigations. She has advised in respect of numerous fatal and non-fatal accident criminal investigations in connection with a variety of industries. This includes deaths on construction sites, agricultural sites, in educational settings and in NHS and local authority premises. She assists clients with disclosure exercises for the purposes of the Coroner’s inquiry and police / regulatory investigations and regularly appears before coroners and magistrates’ courts. She regularly attends interviews under caution with the Health & Safety Executive and the police.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Stephanie Minte

Stephanie is an Associate in the Family Team. Stephanie joined Gardner Leader in November 2016 having graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a 2:1 degree in Law. Stephanie subsequently studied the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law, Guildford in which she obtained a Distinction.

Gardner Leader LLP

Stephanie Newton

Stephanie is a Solicitor at Gardner Leader in the Family team. She is based in the Newbury office. Stephanie advises clients in relation to all matters arising out of divorce/relationship breakdown. Having previously undertaken public law children work as well as private law children work, Stephanie has extensive knowledge of children matters to assist parents with the arrangements for their children following relationship breakdown. Stephanie can also assist with the protection of assets through Pre-nuptial, Post-nuptial and Cohabitation agreements.

Gardner Leader LLP

Stephanie Newton

Senior Associate advising businesses and individuals on all aspects of contentious property work. Particular experience advising on landlord and tenant issues including business lease renewals, forfeiture, break rights and dilapidations.

Stevens & Bolton LLP

Stephanie Pelling

Stephanie is an Associate in the Serious Injury Department with over 14 years’ experience in catastrophic claims. Stephanie has conducted applications to both the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and Motor Insurers Bureau. Stephanie continues to represent clients with serious injury, but has a particular interest in sports injury claims and equine claims, which frequently entail complex liability issues.

Irwin Mitchell

Stephanie Perraton

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Stephanie Perry

Partner

Broadfield Law UK LLP

Stephanie Reeves

Associate solicitor

Irwin Mitchell

Stephanie Robinson

Partner

Davitt Jones Bould