Corporate finance and banking.

Stephen trained at Pickering Kenyon in London, qualifying in 1993. Stephen worked at a number of English law firms, including Coffin Mew & Clover, Fareham, Hants and Parker Bullen, Salisbury before joining Cleaver Fulton Rankin in 1996.

Stephen was admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales in 1993, and admitted as a solicitor in Northern Ireland in 1996. Stephen became a Director at Cleaver Fulton Rankin in 2001.

Stephen is a member of the Law Society of Northern Ireland; the Law Society of England and Wales; and the Irish Wind Energy Association.

Stephen is head of Cleaver Fulton Rankin’s corporate finance and banking department. Stephen advises on corporate finance, banking and commercial law, acting for public sector bodies, financial institutions and businesses in Northern Ireland. Examples of specific areas of Stephen’s practice include project finance, ABL, structured finance, renewable energy projects (for developers and funders) and funding by public bodies and other intermediaries to third sector bodies.

Stephen studied at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and College of Law, Chester.