Stephen Parker
Partner, Restructuring & Insolvency

Stephen is a Partner in the firm’s London office. His practice covers a broad range of work, including restructuring and insolvency; banking and finance litigation and contentious advisory; and commercial litigation and arbitration.

Stephen’s clients include investment banks, hedge funds, private equity funds, CMBS servicers, insolvency practitioners and corporates.

Stephen’s experience includes advising:

• Deutsche Bank as note trustee, cash manager and security trustee in relation to the Fairhold Commercial Mortgage Backed Securitisation (“CMBS”).
• The Royal Bank of Scotland as agent bank and the lender syndicate on the restructuring of a German real estate loan.
• CBRE Loan Servicing as special servicer in relation to the Gemini (Eclipse 2006-3) CMBS, including on the enforcement of the loan in Guernsey, England and Scotland and a High Court application to determine the correct allocation of recoveries on the loan.
• The Government of the Republic of Rwanda in an ICC investor-state arbitration arising from an investment dispute relating to a gas extraction and power generation project on Lake Kivu.

• 1998 – 1999: Bar vocational course, Law, Inns of Court School of Law
• 1997 – 1998: Diploma in Law, City University, London
• 1993 – 1997: Masters of Chemistry, University of Oxford

• Published Materials: ‘The battle over CMBS special servicer termination’, The International Financial Law Review, October 2015.

• Solicitor, England and Wales

• 2011 – 2017: Partner, Paul Hastings
• 2009 – 2011: Associate, Paul Hastings
• 2009: Special Counsel, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
• 2007 – 2009: Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
• 2002 – 2007: Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer