Lawrence Stephens

Managing Director: Steven Bernstein

Number of Directors: 35

Number of other fee-earners: 80

Their business clients are often privately or family owned, founder-led or private equity backed, including challenger banks and similar institutions and the individuals who own and manage these. A unifying theme is that they are entrepreneurial, growing businesses who require practical and commercial advice from advisers who understand them.

They also advise larger corporates on particular specialist legal matters who find their open approach a compelling alternative to larger, less personal firms.

This "twin engine" strategy of focusing on owner-managed/privately owned/private equity backed businesses, and challenger banks and similar institutions has been recognised by industry commentators, confirming for example their place on The Lawyer's list of "firms on the move" outside of the Top 100 UK firms.

In addition to their significant business law capability, they also have a large private wealth offering. They provide a personalised and discreet service for those with significant wealth as well as those whose needs are not so complex. Around a third of their work is advising private individuals, primarily in respect of private wealth and succession, family law and residential real estate matters.

The firm is organised around 11 practice focused departments, see below, and focuses on seven industry sectors: Blockchain and Digital Assets, Financial Institutions,Owner Managed Businesses, Private Wealth, Real Estate,Retail and Hospitality, and Sports and Entertainment.

• Banking: Ajoy Bose-Mallick
• Construction: Tom Pemberton
• Corporate and Commercial: Jeff Rubenstein
• Dispute Resolution: Lawrence Kelly
• Employment: Andrew Conway
• Family: Eleanor Wood and Jim Richards
• Private Wealth: Gareth Hughes
• Real Estate, including Residential Real Estate: Danny Schwarz and Goli-Michelle Banan
• Real Estate Finance: Greg Palos
• Regulatory: Ricardo Geada
• Restructuring and Insolvency: Andrew Conway and Jeff Rubenstein

The firm’s unique culture has attracted talented lawyers from a broad range of backgrounds and the firm now boasts more than 30 Directors and around 100 lawyers, providing significant ‘bench strength’ for even the most challenging assignments.

A truly multinational office, Lawrence Stephens’ legal practitioners can boast fluency in Cantonese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and Swedish among other languages. We regularly assist clients based across Europe, the Middle East and South-East Asia.

50 Farringdon Road

London

EC1M 3HE

T: +44 (0)20 7936 8888

E: [email protected]

W: www.lawrencestephens.com