Steven Franklin

Steven is a dual English and Hong Kong qualified corporate lawyer with a practice focused on shareholder activism, cross-border private and public transactions, capital solutions and corporate insolvency and restructurings. He has over 15 years of experience advising a wide range of investment funds and consortiums on structuring, acquisition, and disposal of equity, equity-linked and debt investments across Europe and APAC.

As a core part of his practice, Steven leads shareholder activism engagements for some of the most prolific and well-known investors in the market, covering stake-building, position disclosures and reporting obligations, trading and exit strategies, private and public proposals, company engagement and shareholder rights. He also advises on the transactional elements of high-profile activist campaigns across Europe and Asia. These investments, which have included various landmark activist situations in the UK, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and South Korea, span high-profile event and target-driven public campaigns to non-public arbitrage trades where Steven provides advice to clients in respect of both legal and strategic issues concerning their equity investments.

L.P.C., Nottingham Law School, England (2009)

LL.B., University of London (2008)