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Stephen Willmer

Call 2004
Telephone 020 7831 0222 | Email [email protected]

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Stephen Willmer

Call 2004
Telephone 020 7831 0222 | Email [email protected]

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Stephen Willmer accepts instructions across the gamut (see below) of chancery and commercial practice in England and Wales. There is in his practice an emphasis on disputes concerning houses, albeit the disputes arise for different reasons, personal and professional, and may be couched in different terms.

Stephen likes to think that his advice is practical and that his representation in court is firm. He is always keen to get under the skin of a problem and to consider it from all angles.

His practice is focused on London and the South East, but he travels all over the country as required.

Business Law

Stephen’s work in business law centres on insolvency, shareholder and (quasi-) partnership disputes, usually in privately owned businesses, often at the somewhat grey crossing point between personal relationships and un- or semi-documented agreements and frequently where there is more than a hint of deceit in a disintegrating business relationship.

Accordingly, he advises and appears in unfair prejudice and winding-up petitions, derivative actions and those more nebulous actions involving breaches of contract and of trust.

RECENT CASES:

Advice and representation in a case concerning section 125 of the Companies Act and which focused on residential property development, and a further such case involving residential leaseholders.
Representation and drafting in an arbitration for a contract case involving provision of very bespoke and expensive joinery.
Advising in an asset purchase agreement concerning a boutique London company.
A winding-up petition contested on the basis that it arises from a fraud where the background concerns a multi-party commercial house building agreement.
Advising an angel investor where his investment had been abused and, on a separate occasion, advising the company owner accused of similar misconduct.
Successful representation at trial of a husband and wife ‘bilked’ over many years by a business associate in relation to real estate developments.
Advice and representation for multiple former company directors accused of executing preferential transactions/transactions at an undervalue.
Representation in an application to rescind a winding-up order.
Advice and representation in multiple applications to restrain presentation of winding-up petitions.
Advice and representation in multiple different business breakdowns, where the underlying business was both documented and undocumented, and up to and including the use of freezing orders.
Advice and representation in multiple cases of (usually) domestic construction firms claimed against by owners for work done (or not done), and also as between contractors.
See also: Khan -v- Khan – a case on undocumented partnerships, constructive trusts and fiduciary duties.

Public Access

Stephen Willmer has been public access qualified for the best part of 15 years and, where appropriate, has handled hundreds of cases on this basis.

Areas of Expertise

Business

Property

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Qualifications

Stephen took degrees in history from King’s College London and political science from the London School of Economics before completing the CPE which allowed him to train for the Bar, to which he was called in 2004 by the Middle Temple.

Scholarships & Awards

Queen Mother Middle Temple Scholarship.
Letchmere Essay Prize.

Languages

Tolerable French, execrable Latin.

Interests

Stephen is a keen amateur cook, in proud possession of a rather odd fascination for the alchemy of stocks and sauces. He enjoys esoteric and genre literature, and if he could be a fictional character it would be the Fifth Earl of Ickenham. Unlike the Fifth Earl, he occasionally goes to the gym and plays tennis.