Date posted:
Thu 17 June 2021
Stephen Green has joined Bermans as a Partner to head their Commercial team.
Stephen joins Bermans from the Manchester office of a large listed national law firm, having historically worked in-house and in the North East, and believes his skills are well suited to serving the firm’s client base from their Manchester and Liverpool offices.
Having historically worked at mainly large regional firms, Stephen is perfectly suited to provide legal and commercial advise to the Bermans’ regional focused SME client base, in connection with commercial contracts, intellectual property and IT matters.
Stephen is primarily a commercial contracts specialist and will lead the team on wider commercial compliance (including data protection and GDPR compliance) and intellectual property protection portfolio. Stephen advises clients in a wide range of sectors and industries; including the cosmetic, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, leisure, retail and sports. He was previously in-house at Avon Cosmetics and MATCH Hospitality.
Stephen will also be given a mandate to look to grow the commercial team further, similar to the way Bermans corporate offering has developed in Manchester under the leadership of Jon Davage. Currently the Bermans commercial team is made up of Stephen, a solicitor, a trainee solicitor and an experienced regulatory consultant in Greg Walsh, The plan is to grow the team and become the “go to” commercial team for SMEs in the North West.
In addition, Stephen will also complement Bermans growing Sport Law team, alongside Gareth Farrelly and David Keenan, as he has substantial experience of working on commercial contracts for sporting organisations, clubs and events, including in relation to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and was also lead advisor to the T20 Caribbean Premier League (CPL), which involved drafting, advising on and negotiating various rights and outsourcing related commercial agreements.
Stephen comments “I am delighted to have joined Bermans. It has been a challenging couple of years and so I am really excited about coming to such a commercial and progressive firm. There are plenty of opportunities for us as a firm in both Manchester and Liverpool. I am looking forward to working with Fergal, Jon and the rest of the Bermans team to build on our current client base, and develop and grow our offering, without forgetting our local roots and culture. Very exciting times ahead!”
Bermans Senior Partner, Fergal O’Cleirigh, comments “We are delighted Stephen has joined us to replace Chris McDonough who has now retired after 8 years of fantastic service to the firm. We feel commercial contract expertise is an important part of our full service offering to the SME market and we hope under Stephen’s leadership the team can build on the foundations Chris laid.”