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Stephanie Kingdon

Stephanie Kingdon

Stephanie has significant experience in all aspects of general property and commercial landlord and tenant disputes, in particular relating to managing and mitigating risk in transactional work. Stephanie advises on a wide range of contentious commercial property matters, and her experience extends to complex, high profile and politically sensitive advisory work. She has dealt with real estate litigation in both the High Court and Court of Appeal and has resolved disputes through mediation and arbitration. In addition to “traditional” property disputes, Stephanie also advises on planning-related matters including judicial reviews and statutory challenges.
Sian Leonard

Sian Leonard

Sian specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvency whether it is acting for the officeholder, director, bankrupt, lender, creditor, or other stakeholder in the insolvent estate. Sian’s work also involves a lot of front-end work in her advisory role and with transactional work, meeting very short timescales, addressing whatever issues are thrown at her, and ultimately delivering great results for her clients. Sian is also the main point of contact for some of Birkett’s lender clients. Sian has been awarded the 2019 winner for rising star – SME at the Insolvency Practitioner Association awards. Sian is also heavily involved in R3 as a committee member of the Eastern Region of R3, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and a member of the R3 London Women’s Group. This allows her to understand, appreciate and hopefully promote the insolvency industry to everyone effected by insolvency.
Will MacFarlane

Will MacFarlane

Will is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Family & Divorce team and he advises clients on the full range of family law issues arising on the breakdown of relationships. He has a particular interest in resolving complex financial claims often with an international element. He has over 13 years of experience having spent his formative years at Withers in London. He also advises on arrangements for children following the breakdown of a relationship. On the non-contentious side, he is frequently instructed by families to advise on wealth protection issues and nuptial and cohabitation agreements. Specific areas of expertise include: financial claims on divorce often with assets held abroad or in corporate or trust structures; jurisdiction disputes and financial claims following a foreign divorce; advising clients wishing to vary or terminate ongoing maintenance payments; wealth protection including advising on domestic and international prenuptial and postnuptial agreements to protect businesses, trust interests and inherited wealth; advising on cohabitation agreements to avoid property disputes between unmarried couples; child arrangements disputes and acting for parents wishing to relocate abroad with their children; and financial claims for children brought by unmarried parents. His clients have included professional sportspeople (including premiership football and rugby players), investment bankers, city professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners and landowners. His recent international work has involved other jurisdictions including Russia, Brazil, France, Italy, China, Serbia and the USA (Illinois and California) and he has worked closely with lawyers in those jurisdictions to achieve his client’s aims. Where possible, Will seeks to settle cases without the need for contested court proceedings but he will fight his client’s corner if required.