Mel Stephens is Managing Director of the firm. He is a US-qualified attorney and has doctorates from both Oxford University and the University of California. He is the co-author of International Business and National Jurisdiction (Oxford University Press, 1988) with the late Sir Alan Neale, one of the world’s most distinguished competition lawyers.

Mel has practiced in the UK since 1983, when he formed Stephens & Associates. He has acted as Company Secretary and International Counsel to Reebok International since 1988. He serves as a director on the boards of a number of other companies.

Mel also acts for a number of other clients in the sports and fashion sectors to whom he provides a wide range of general international legal and business advice.

He can fairly be described as one of the world’s leading experts on international distribution and licensing arrangements and was retained in 2005 as an expert witness in a dispute in the sports fashion sector in which our client was awarded US$52 million in damages.

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