Exchange Chambers is ‘a really strong regional player’ for company and insolvency work, with clients holding the set in especially high regard for its insolvency expertise. Lisa Linklater KC is noted particularly for her experience handling shareholder disputes and insolvency matters. She offers ’pragmatic and commercially aware advice’ to national and international clients on a regular basis. Eleanor d’Arcy’s varied practice encompasses unfair prejudice petitions as well as the full spectrum of insolvency-related litigation. Steven Fennell is also a leading insolvency practitioner on the North Eastern Circuit. Matthew Maddison joined from Enterprise Chambers.
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Profile
Work Department
Commercial; Insolvency
Position
Steven specialises in commercial, financial and insolvency litigation and professional negligence and regulatory matters for the legal and accountancy professions.
Steven qualified as a solicitor in 1996, as an insolvency practitioner in 1999, and a solicitor advocate in 2013, before transferring to the Bar in 2014. He became a CEDR-accredited mediator in 2012.
Steven’s commercial practice includes:
- Shareholder disputes
- Partnership and LLP disputes
- Sale of goods and supply of services
- Banking and finance litigation
- Franchise litigation
- Commercial fraud, including applications for freezing injunctions and search and seizure orders
- Consumer Credit
Steven also regularly undertakes non-contentious advisory work on instructions from solicitors.
Career
Solicitor 1996; insolvency practitioner in 1999; solicitor advocate in 2013; Called to the Bar 2014; Accredited Mediator
Memberships
- Insolvency Lawyers
- Association R3
Education
- University of Bristol (LLB)
- Merton College, Oxford (BCL)
- Accredited Mediator (CEDR)
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Testimonials
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- 'The clerks are first rate. Joe Mawson and Nick Buckley, particularly, really understand their instructing solicitors' needs and the prompt response times and the fact that they are always looking to "go the extra mile" makes them one of the sets in the country to deal with.'
- 'The clerking is very good at all levels.'
- 'A nice group of clerks and very helpful.'
- 'A good chambers, with helpful and responsive clerks.'
- 'Exchange Chambers has an excellent selection of counsel.'
- 'Exchange is unrivalled in the North for insolvency given their strength in depth.'
- 'A really strong regional player.'