Seventeen Stephenson Harwood lawyers have been named Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers 2025.
Partners Peter Bennett, Helena Berman, Elton Chang, Richard Garcia, Alistair Glover, Max Lemanski, Ian Mace, Jenny McKeown, Tom Nicholls, Stephen Richards, Julie Romer, Tammy Samuel, William Saunders, David Sinclair, Dan Smith, and Paul Thwaite, and associate Hannah Marriott, were all included in the list of stand-out lawyers.
Thomson Reuters conducts an annual global study of senior legal buyers, identifying client-nominated standout lawyers for inclusion in a database featuring over 18,000 client-nominated lawyers in private practice.
Peter Bennet is a London-based Partner in Stephenson Harwood’s Maritime, Trade and Offshore practice. He specialises in international litigation and arbitration, as well as commercial contracts focusing on the energy, commodity and international trade sectors.
Helena Berman is a London-based Partner in Stephenson Harwood's Employment, Pensions, Immigration and Private Wealth team, specialising in contentious trusts, pensions and probate disputes, and is Head of the firm's Pensions Dispute Resolution practice. She acts for corporates, trustees, financial services firms, financial institutions, insurers and private individuals on complex high value pensions, probate and contentious trust disputes.
Elton Chan is a Partner in the firm's Maritime, Trade and Offshore practice, based in Hong Kong, and is an expert in shipping finance, including debt, finance lease and operating lease. He also regularly advises clients on real estate development and investment finance, including syndicated loans, margin lending, repo transactions, acquisition finance and other forms of structured finance.
London-based Commercial Litigation Partner Richard Garcia leads Stephenson Harwood's Corporate and Commercial Disputes group. He specialises in corporate and commercial, financial and fraud disputes and has particular expertise in banking, funds, structured finance and financial products disputes.
Alastair Glover is a Private Wealth Partner in the firm's Dubai office and leads the Private Wealth practice in the Middle East. He specialises in advising high-net worth individuals and families, family offices and trustees on global estate planning, tax efficient investment structures, assets protection and philanthropy.
London-based Max Lemanski is a Partner in the Maritime, Trade and Offshore practice specialising in offshore energy, shipbuilding and shipping. He is head of the firm’s offshore energy and construction group, including Stephenson Harwood’s market-leading FPSO team. He is also an expert in the superyacht field, specialising in construction contracts and charters.
Ian Mace is a London-based Partner in Stephenson Harwood's Finance team, and Global Head of the firm's Maritime, Trade and Offshore Finance group. He is an expert in the asset finance sector, specialising in ship, offshore and superyacht finance.
Jenny McKeown is a London-based Partner, and Global Head of Stephenson Harwood's Employment, Pensions, Private Wealth Immigration, Corporate Tax and Contentious Trusts practice. She acts for trustees, beneficiaries, corporates, financial services firms, financial institutions, insurers and private individuals on complex, high value, trust disputes in the private wealth, pensions, banking and financial services sectors.
Tom Nicholls is a London-based Partner, and Head of Stephenson Harwood's Corporate practice. Tom advises on IPOs and secondary issues (Main Market and AIM) both in London and internationally, public company takeovers, investment funds, domestic and cross border private M&A.
Stephen Richards is a London-based Partner and Head of the firm's Pensions team. He advises employers, trustees, and master trusts on all types of pensions issues and is an expert on pensions in the banking sector, large pension schemes, Pensions Regulator issues and master trusts.
London-based Julie Romer is a Partner in the Debt Finance team. Julie advises lenders, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers across a range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions, with particular expertise in leveraged finance.
Tammy Samuel is a London-based Partner in Stephenson Harwood's Infrastructure and Transport practice, where she heads the Rail and Bus team. She is a leading projects, commercial and regulatory rail and bus expert, who advises on all aspects of those industries both in the UK and internationally.
William Saunders is a Partner and Head of the Funds and Financial Services group advising on the launch, reconstruction, takeover and investments of funds and trading companies.
Partner David Sinclair is an experienced real estate investment and development lawyer based in London, specialising in advising international and domestic clients on high profile and complex building and infrastructure projects.
London-based Commercial Litigation Partner Dan Smith advises on high-stakes Corporate and Commercial disputes and investigations, particularly in the areas of investment and finance, complex commercial litigation, contentious restructurings and insolvencies, and bribery and corruption.
Paul Thwaite is a London-based Partner in Stephenson Harwood’s Commercial Litigation team, and the firm's Senior Partner. He is a specialist in construction and engineering disputes and procurement claims, and advises on projects in the UK and around the world.
Hannah Marriott is a Maritime Finance Associate in the London Finance group, and advises banks, financial institutions and owners on cross-border ship finance transactions relating to syndicated and bilateral debt financings, ship sale and purchases, and sale and leaseback transactions. Hannah is also a member of the superyacht team.
