Stephen Pearson

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With more than 30 years of cross-border experience, Stephen Pearson's practice focuses on complex international litigation and arbitration. Stephen is dual qualified (England & Wales and New York) and actively practices in the courts of both jurisdictions, as well as in other U.S. courts and arbitral tribunals around the world.

Stephen has represented clients in multibillion dollar disputes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere. After the landmark decision in the Excalibur/Texas Keystone case, where all claims were dismissed and indemnity costs awarded against the litigation funders that backed those claims, Stephen's team won a clean sweep of the major UK legal awards (dispute resolution team of the year at the British Legal Awards, the Legal Business Awards, and The Lawyer Awards). His team was also shortlisted for European Dispute Resolution team of the year in 2023 by The Lawyer for helping bondholders secure a €804 million judgment against The Netherlands in the SNS expropriation case following a 10-year fight for compensation.

Among many high-profile cases, Stephen acted for a wide stable of banks in the disputes that followed the financial crisis, including RBS, Standard Chartered, Wells Fargo, and Lehman Brothers. He has also appeared as counsel in numerous cross-border bankruptcy cases, including Soundview and Oi as well as in high-profile cross-border litigation disputes, such as the Grenfell Tower-related litigation brought in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (dismissed and sent to the United Kingdom on forum grounds).