Steven has twenty five years experience of handling complex disputes for banks and financial institutions. He has experience of a wide range of domestic and international banking and finance litigation including interlocutory applications for injunctions including domestic and worldwide freezing orders and search and seize orders, professional indemnity claims and insolvency issues. Steven has substantial advocacy and trial experience.

He is very experienced in alternative dispute resolution and has completed over a hundred mediations. Steven’s clients include Barclays, RBS, Allied Irish Bank, UBS, Woolwich, Barclaycard, National Australia Group (including Clydesdale) and Santander. In the Legal Directories, Steven is regarded as a ‘Leader in his Field’ and “really experienced and particularly impressive” (Chambers 2009), is recognised as “a sound litigation practitioner with a great client manner” (Chambers 2010).

Steven is chairman of the Banking and Finance Group of Eurojuris, a network of European firms.  Steven was elected as the first Chair of Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP on its incorporation in April 2009 and re-elected in April 2011.

Steven lectures and writes on banking and financial issues and contributes to the firm’s monthly bulletin which reports issues, developments and news in the banking and finance sector.

Steven is a member of the Centre of Alternative Dispute Resolution; Institute of Directors; R3 – The Association of Business Recovery Professionals; and through the firm the FLA; BBA and CML.