Stephen Denyer is a partner at Allen & Overy LLP.  He is the firm's International Development Partner, with a wide ranging role relating to the global development of the firm. He has a long standing involvement in the firm's recruitment, know-how, training and development activities.  His other global management functions include general responsibility for the firm's relationships with other law firms, public bodies, regulators and universities.  In addition he oversees the firm's Corporate Responsibility strategy.

 

From 1997 until 2007, he was Regional Managing Partner for Europe, with overall responsibility for the firm's Continental European offices.  From 2003 to 2006 he was co-managing partner of the Italian offices of the firm.  From 1990 until 1997, he was the partner in charge of co-ordinating the activities of the firm's Central and Eastern European practice group and had overall responsibility for its offices in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Moscow.  He headed the Warsaw office from 1995 - 1997 and the Frankfurt office from 1998 to 2000.

 

His professional work has included M&A, privatisations, flotations and take-over bids in many parts of Europe.

 

He frequently chairs and speaks at conferences on a range of topics relating to law firm development and management.

 

Positions held:

Vice Chairman of the International Bar Association's Law Firm Management Committee

Council Member of the International Bar Association's European Forum

Member of the Coordinating Committee for the International Bar Association's Group Membership Scheme

Member of the Multi-Jurisdictional Law Firms Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe ("CCBE")

Vice-Chair of the Task Force on Transnational Legal Practice of the ABA Section of International Law

Co-Chair of the International Law Practice Management Forum of the ABA Section of International Law

Member of the Executive Committee of the Managing Partners' Forum