Stephen is head of the Property Group and also Heads up the firm’s Hotel and Hospitality Group. He qualified as a solicitor in 1984 and joined Edwin Coe’s Property Team in 1997. Stephen was previously with Wilde Sapte, where he was also a partner. He has wide experience of commercial property transactions and the financing of property both for lenders and borrowers, including development finance as well as certain types of specialist structured finance.
Stephen also has experience of insolvency and restructuring and banking recovery transactions acting for mortgagees recovering loan monies, LPA and Administrative Receivers, Liquidators and Administrators. Stephen’s clients are a wide variety of investors, developers, occupiers and financiers based in the UK and overseas.
Stephen has undertaken financing and hotel and hospitality work for clients in Malaysia and other parts of the Far East.
Expertise
Commercial property
Landlord and Tenant
Residential conveyancing
Banking and Property Finance
Insolvency & Restructuring
Hotel & Hospitality
Credentials
Recommended in Legal 500 UK 2025
Stephen's Blogs
Blog - 29/02/2024
The Building Safety Act: What are Relevant Bu...
Property
Blog - 14/08/2023
The Building Safety Act: Considerations for c...
Property
Blog - 25/05/2023
Impact of the Renters’ Reform Bill
Property
Blog - 17/05/2023
The Renters’ (Reform) Bill – landmark cha...
Property