Withers LLP

Civil fraud.

Partner.

Stephen heads the global fraud team and is described as ‘hugely experienced and thinks strategically. He's brilliant at getting a client to identify what they really need, and then finding a way to deliver that. Brilliant to work with, with a calm and authoritative approach.’ His practice focusses on international asset freezing and recovery cases, heavyweight commercial litigation and crisis management. Stephen is particularly adept at drawing on the firm’s tax expertise in such cases to obtain a strategic advantage.

Stephen often acts for family offices, entrepreneurs and their businesses on a broad range of commercial disputes and heads up our family office first group, which is an innovative approach to finding positive solutions for family business conflicts. He has a particular focus at present on fraud disputes emanating out of large-scale insolvencies as well as disputes from India and the Middle East.

Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association