Stephen O'Grady

Stephen is a partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency team. He advises lenders, corporates, boards, turnaround directors, investors, insolvency practitioners and other key stakeholders in a range of domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency circumstances. He has a mixed contentious and non-contentious practice, specialising in the technology, financial services and real estate sectors. 

He is regularly called upon by boards to provide advice in their most sensitive of financial circumstances, developing novel work-out strategies as well as contingency planning to maximise value in distressed circumstances. He also serves on the board of the Turnaround Management Association (UK), for which he is a regular contributor to turnaround industry events. 

A significant part of Stephen's practice is advising both lenders and investors in distressed real estate transactions: both on complex enforcement and realisation strategies, as well as consensual work-outs and distressed investment opportunities. 

Stephen is also a leader of the firm's initiatives that support clients with interests in blockchain and crypto assets, with specialist expertise of many of the challenges facing business operating in this space. He is a regular speaker at conferences on blockchain and crypto-related topics, and advises clients on both front-end structuring issues related to crypto-assets, as well as distressed investments and crypto-insolvencies.