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Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Stephen Young
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.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Transport > Travel
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Transport > Aviation
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant