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Barristers

Stephen Robins KC

South Square, London

Position

Stephen specialises in the fields of insolvency and restructuring, banking and finance, commercial dispute resolution and civil fraud. His practice areas also include company law, real property, insurance and financial services.

Stephen has been instructed in numerous cases in the Supreme Court and the Privy Council (Lehman Waterfall I, BONY Mellon v LBG Capital, PwC v Saad, Singularis v PwC, Rubin v Eurofinance, Landsbanki v Heritable, Nortel/Lehman, EL Trigger) and in the Court of Appeal (Titan, IBRC, Lehman Waterfall I, Lehman Waterfall II, Firth Rixson, Tambrook, Ovenden Colbert, Tiuta, Atrium).

Major cases in which Stephen has been instructed in recent years include Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (for the administrators), Kaupthing (for the winding-up board), African Minerals (for the administrators), London Mining (for the administrators), Afren (for the administrators), IBRC (for the liquidators), Landsbanki (for the winding-up board), Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities (for the SIPA trustee), Rangers (for the administrators), Luminar (for the administrators), MF Global (for the Chapter 11 trustee) and Sanko (for the Japanese trustee).

Career

Called 2001 (Lincoln’s Inn).

Memberships

ILA, COMBAR, Chancery Bar Association.

Education

Christ Church, Oxford University (BA Modern History, First Class).

Mentions

London Bar

Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

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Stephen Robins KC –South Square ‘Stephen is an absolutely excellent barrister.  He is a detailed and creative thinker.  He has particular expertise in insolvency-related issues but is also very adept at interpretation of finance documents more generally.  He is a very impressive advocate - one who quickly gains the trust and confidence of the tribunal.'
London Bar

Commercial litigation

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Stephen Robins KC –South Square ‘A very good advocate - very good at drafting and gets on top of the detail.’
London Bar

Company

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Stephen Robins KC - South Square ‘Intellectually at top of the game, he is a pleasure to watch on his feet, delivering legal arguments in his quietly unassuming but assured and persuasive manner.’
London Bar

Fraud: civil

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Stephen Robins KC –South Square 'Stephen is a very skilled and persuasive advocate in court and has excellent drafting skills.'
London Bar

Insolvency

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Stephen Robins KC – South Square

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