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Steven Kempster
- Phone020 7597 6196
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Work Department
Trust, estate and succession disputes team.
Position
Partner.
Steven specialises in the resolution of disputes relating to trusts and estates in a UK and international context, in particular where cross-border issues and conflicts of law are involved. Recent cases have involved disputes in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cayman Islands and Bermuda. He also advises on dispute resolution where UK charities are involved. Steven has also accepted appointment by the relevant courts to act as a representative party looking after the interests of children and unborn beneficiaries in trusts and estates disputes. He also has particular expertise in guiding clients through alternative dispute resolution processes, including mediation, early neutral evaluation and the evolving use of arbitration in trusts disputes.
Career
Trained and qualified, Herbert Smith LLP, London, 1998 to 2008
Partner at Taylor Wessing LLP, London, 2008 to 2014
Partner at Withers LLP, London, 2014 to present.
Publications
Editor and contributing author to 'International Trust Disputes', published by Oxford University Press 2013 (first edition) and 2020 (second edition).
Memberships
STEP (elected as committee member for Contentious Trusts Steering Group); and
Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists.