Stephen R Berry

Practice Areas

Steve is Chairman and founding partner at Acuity Law, with over 25 years of top-level experience both in the UK and internationally.

A highly experienced corporate lawyer and dealmaker with a demonstrable track record of advising on numerous high-value M&A transactions, Stephen is widely recognised as a leader in his field. He is listed as a leading individual in The Legal 500 and has a Band 1 ranking from Chambers and Partners.

With extensive experience advising on complex, often highly technical and intricate finance structures and partnerships between the private and public sectors, clients describe him as “very good, pragmatic, commercial and doesn’t mess around.”

Steve has board-level experience of working with growth companies from early-stage funding through to exit and has a particular interest in technology-backed ventures.

Expertise:

- Corporate deals and transactions including mergers, acquisitions and disposals

- Private equity-funded transactions and PE-backed buy and build strategies

- Commercial projects and contracts including long-term contracts between the private and public sectors

- Banking and finance structures, including complex and structured arrangements

- Restructuring and distressed situations