Stephen Cross > Cleaver Fulton Rankin > Belfast, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile

Cleaver Fulton Rankin‘s department is active in a broad range of transactions, including corporate finance, project finance, and real estate finance. The group has experience acting for borrowers and lenders based within Northern Ireland and internationally. Team lead Stephen Cross advises on a range of financing matters, and provides regulatory advice to clients. Patrick O’Hanlon joined the firm from TLT in September 2022, and specialises in real estate finance.

Cleaver Fulton Rankin fields a team of planning, regulatory, property, and corporate lawyers, with experience in a broad range of energy matters. Team lead Stephen Cross advises energy companies, investors, and financial institutions, and is particularly experienced working on wind, solar, and biomass projects. Planning expert Karen Blair and property specialist Joe Marley are key names in the team.

Areas of expertise for Cleaver Fulton Rankin‘s multidisciplinary team include contentious and non-contentious insolvencies, corporate and financial restructuring, and distressed loan sales and purchases. Insolvency specialist Jeanette Donohoe leads the team, and is praised by clients for her ‘proactive commercial approach.‘ Donohoe is supported by Stephen Cross, who is dual qualified in both Northern Ireland and England and Wales, as well as associate director Maria McNally, whose practice includes both personal and corporate insolvency matters.