Keystone Law

Corporate, commercial.

Stephen is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with a wide range of expertise across of number of jurisdictions. He has experience of advising borrowers on tax- and VAT-efficient offshore structures that hold UK-based real estate assets and expertise in advising lenders in relation to the financing of such offshore structures. In addition to providing commercial law advice to a wide range of businesses, Stephen also has extensive experience of advising IT, telecoms and e-gaming companies on technology-based commercial agreements and has previously worked as a telecommunications consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). His clients include an online card payment company that provides multi-currency bill payment services to online and traditional businesses. Stephen has multi-jurisdictional experience and connections having worked in London, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Dubai as well as Glasgow and the Isle of Man.

1998-2000 Maclay Murray & Spens, trainee solicitor; 2000 qualified as a solicitor; 2000-2005 Bryan Cave (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait and London) solicitor; 2005-2014 Cains (Isle of Man and London), solicitor and business; 2014 Keystone Law, consultant solicitor.