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Stephen Young

0203 3193700 stephen.young@keystonelaw.co.uk

Work Department

Insurance: Insolvency and Restructuring

Position

Stephen is a highly experienced insolvency and restructuring specialist who deals with both corporate and personal insolvency assignments, providing pragmatic and commercial advice. With extensive expertise in all aspects of insolvency litigation, transactional/advisory and cross-border work, his practice focuses largely on advising insolvency officeholders as well as those affected by insolvency, including creditors, lenders, professional, businesses and individuals.
Stephen is a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and the Insolvency Lawyers Association.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: 

• Corporate and personal insolvency procedures, including administrations, liquidations, receiverships, bankruptcy, voluntary arrangements, and insolvent estates
• Contentious insolvency, including antecedent transaction claims
• Tracing, securing and pursuing claims to recover assets located within the UK or offshore
• Investigations, including s236/s366 applications
• Transactional insolvency, including drafting and negotiating agreements for the sale of assets by insolvency officeholders
• Creditor services, including security reviews, ROT issues, advising lenders, advising landlords and undertaking debt recovery
• Advising directors on their duties and liabilities, including disqualification proceedings and s216 prohibited names issues
• Defending statutory demands and petitions, including applications to set aside or injunctions to restrain presentation
• Company strike-offs and restoration applications

Career

Qualified as a solicitor in 2004, joined Keystone Law in 2016

Memberships

Stephen is a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and the Insolvency Lawyers Association.