David Steinberg > Stevens & Bolton LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile

Stevens & Bolton LLP
WEY HOUSE
FARNHAM ROAD
GUILDFORD
GU1 4YD
England

Work Department

Restructuring & Insolvency

Position

Partner and Co-head of Restructuring and Insolvency, advising corporates, shareholders, banks and other stakeholders on all aspects of restructuring and insolvency.

Career

Qualified as a solicitor at Clifford Chance in 1988 and was made partner there in 1994. Spent 30 years at Clifford Chance where he was co-head of the Restructuring & Insolvency practice before joining Stevens & Bolton in 2016.

Languages

Spanish

Memberships

Member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and of INSOL. David has also co-authored the chapters on ‘schemes of arrangement’ and on insurance insolvency in ‘Tolley’s Loose-Leaf Insolvency Law’.

Education

BA Modern Languages : St John’s College, Cambridge 1983

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery

In Guildford, Stevens & Bolton LLP‘s ‘technically proficient and commercially aware‘ team handles a number of cross-border insolvencies, member’s voluntary liquidations and personal insolvencies for clients in the retail and hospitality sectors. The ‘excellentTim Carter heads up the practice alongside David Steinberg; Carter takes an ‘effective and creative‘ approach when advising on the sale of distressed businesses, corporate and personal insolvencies, and insolvency disputes, while Steinberg primarily focuses on the restructuring of insurance companies and distressed regulated financial institutions. Matthew Padian advises a number of insolvency practitioners and lenders on pre-pack transactions, and Lucy Trott is the key name at senior associate level.

London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory

Stevens & Bolton LLP  operates out of Guilford, with experience across the range of M&A, Part VII, bulk annuity, and reinsurance transactions in addition to wider regulatory capabilities. The hire of Heidi Sawtell in April 2022 has been a boon to the practice with her experience in working on major corporate transactions and time spent advising the PRA during Solvency II implementation and Brexit. Gary Parnell is the other practice head with his established experience in handling distribution arrangements, affinity partnership projects, outsourcings, IT projects, and insurtech matters. David Steinberg, Joe Bedford, and Jenny Robertson are other key points of contact.