Cripps Harries Hall

Stephen Williams

Partner

Stephen Williams has been a commercial solicitor for over 30 years.  He advises businesses, government bodies and not-for-profit organisations on a wide range of commercial arrangements, particularly collaborations, joint ventures and partnerships.  He has a special interest in limited liability partnerships and has advised many professional partnerships in their conversion to LLP status.

Expertise

  • Contract
  • Commercial agreements
  • Partnerships and LLPs
  • Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)
  • Joint ventures
  • Joint ventures (property)
  • Corporate risk analysis/business advice

Memberships

  • Association of Partnership Practitioners
  • Managing Partners' Forum

Career

  • Partner, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2001
  • Deputy Director, Office of the Rail Regulator, 2000
  • European In-house Counsel, Prologis, 1999
  • Partner, Linklaters, 1988
  • Solicitor, Linklaters, 1981
  • Acting for numerous professional partnerships on their conversion to LLP status and other LLP matters; clients include Top 100 law firms and Top 50 accountancy practices
  • Acting for a major real estate investment company on the terms of their LLP joint venture with a listed UK householder
  • Acting for former members of solicitors' LLP to extract their capital and obtain other remedies
  • Acting for an excluded partner of a firm of surveyors to recover a substantial sum for him via mediation
  • Acting for a major London commercial property developer in its first foray into residential development. The scheme involved a complex site assembly, the surrender of occupational leases, the creation of a joint venture and bank and secondary lending. We also handled the letting of the main construction contract and associated construction documentation, the pre sale of an apartment block to a housing association and the sale of the remaining units
  • Acting for a developer in connection with the acquisition (and simultaneous disposal of part) of a residential development site in Hertfordshire in joint venture with a plc developer (consideration in excess of £30 million)
Legal updates view all
+ Partnerships & professional practices - The test of true partnership - when are LLP members also employees? - February 2012
This week's decision by the Court of Appeal in Tiffin v Lester Aldridge LLP - [2012] EWCA Civ 35 - is a welcome clarification of the principles to be applied in deciding whether junior members of a limited liability partnership - typically described as "salaried" or "fixed share" partners - are also employees of the LLP.
 03/02/2012