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Stephenson Harwood Offices

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Mr Stephen Richards

Work Department
Employment, pensions, private wealth, immigration, contentious trusts and corporate tax
Position
Stephen joined Stephenson Harwood from Allen and Overy to complement our strong and growing pensions team. As a rising star in pensions law, Stephen further enhances the reputation of the firm’s pension practice.
He is an expert on pensions in the banking sector, large pension schemes, Pensions Regulator issues and master trusts. Stephen has experience on major strategic projects including advising on the acquisition of a major master trust provider and the largest company contribution made to a pension scheme to date. Stephen is also a trustee so he understands what trustees need from their advisers. Stephen established the Pensions Innovation Café, and likes to present advice in a modern, user friendly way.
Stephen‘s recent experience includes advising on multiple transfers to DC master trusts and the trustees of several of the UK’s major pension schemes on all day to day legal issues. He also gave strategic advice on major Pensions Regulatory issues for a FTSE 100 company as well as to a global telecoms company on world-wide pensions issues.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
(Leading partners)Stephenson Harwood advises on non-contentious pensions matters, acting for large household name clients on offshore, private and non-standard pension schemes. The team is led by Philip Goodchild, who advises a number of employers and trustees on high-value schemes; Stephen Richards is also a key name in the high-value pension scheme space. Naeem Noor has a notable advisory practice, which ranges from scheme closures to future accrual and portfolio diversification issues, and also handles the pensions elements of corporate transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Pensions (non-contentious) London > Employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Dispute resolution > Commodities disputes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Transport > Rail
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employers
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Employment > Senior executives
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Property finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport