“Simplifying complexity and ensuring efficient and collaborative deal execution is at the core of what we do.”

Stephen is the head of our Corporate division and a member of our board. He has particular expertise in equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity.

Stephen principally focuses on the technology and energy sectors. His work in the technology sector includes early stage and scale-up financings (for both investors and companies) and M&A (both buy- and sell-side). In the energy sector: renewables as well as upstream oil and gas.

He also has significant industry experience from his timing working for multinational technology businesses – before joining the firm he was the general counsel at Orbital Software and then at IndigoVision.

Areas of practice include:

Sector experience includes:

Admitted

1997: Scotland

Relevant experience

Advising Epic Games on several acquisitions, including of Contex.AI, Cubic Motion, Loci, SuperAwesome and Tonic Games.
Advising FanDuel on its equity financings.
Advising IndigoVision on its equity financings, IPO and subsequent recommended takeover by Motorola Solutions.
Advising Optoscribe on its sale to Intel Corporation.
Advising TV Squared on its equity financings and subsequent sale to Innovid.
Advising DeltaDNA on its equity financings and subsequent sale to Unity Software.
Advising S2G Ventures, Ospraie Capital and Cleveland Avenue in their participations in the series A to C financings of Intelligent Growth Solutions.
Advising Hummingbird Ventures on several equity investments.
Advising Cambridge Nutritional Sciences on its cash box placing and open offer and on the sales of its C19 LFT business and its CD4 LFT business.
Advising Kelso Pharma on its acquisition of Alturix.
Advising Parsley Box on its equity financings, AIM IPO and subsequent placing and open offer.
Advising BayWa r.e. UK on several windfarm sales, including of Inverclyde, Tralorg, Whitelaw Brae and Broken Cross.
Advising Oil States Industries on several acquisitions, including of MR Inspections, RiserTec and E-Flow Control.
Advising Capricorn Energy on several transactions, including its US$500 million VWAP tender offer, its US$400 million sale of PSC interests in Senegal, the acquisitions of Nautical Petroleum and Agora Oil & Gas, the sales of interests in the Catcher and Mariner oilfields, the IPO of Cairn India, and the subsequent sale of Cairn India to Vedanta.