Stephen Atherton QC
- Contact details:
- 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.
- Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911.
- LDE338 (Chancery Lane).
- Email practicemanagers@southsquare.com.
Web www.southsquare.com
- Professional career:
- 2006 Appointed Queen’s Counsel
- 1989 Called to the Bar (Middle Temple)
- Called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean
- Rights of audience in Brunei Darussalam for specific cases
- Called to the Bars of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man for specific cases
- Education:
- LLB (Hons)(Lancaster)
- LLM (Cantab) (First Class)
- Awards and scholarships:
- Middle Temple: Harmsworth Entrance Exhibitioner; Astbury Scholar
- Magdalene College Cambridge: Bundy Law Scholar; Norah Dias Prize for Law
Recommended in Chambers & Partners, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Legal Experts, Stephen Atherton’s practice comprises: international and domestic corporate insolvency and restructuring; civil aspects of international and domestic commercial fraud; domestic and international commercial litigation; company law; banking and personal insolvency.
He has been heavily involved in many of the recent major domestic and international corporate restructurings and insolvencies including: Lehman Brothers, Landsbanki hf, Kaupthing hf, Madoff, Wind Hellas, Countrywide Plc, The SPhinX Group, Pioneer Freight Futures, Northern Rock, Portsmouth City FC, Eurotunnel, Whistlejacket Capital Ltd, Sigma Finance Corp, British Energy, Enron, Jarvis Plc, TXU, MG Rover, MyTravel, Railtrack, Marconi, and ITV Digital.
Stephen also has considerable experience in commercial litigation and contentious insolvency proceedings in the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Jersey and the Isle of Man including: successful litigation to recover billions of dollars of state assets on behalf of the Brunei Investment Agency and the Government.