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.
Mel has practiced in the UK since 1983, when he founded Stephens & Associates. He has acted as a Director and International Counsel to Reebok International Limited since 1988. He also serves as a director on the boards of a number of other companies.
Mel acts for a number of other clients in the sports and fashion sectors to whom he provides a wide range of international legal and business advice.
He can fairly be described as one of the world’s leading experts on international distribution and licensing arrangements. He 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. He has since acted as an expert in terms of custom and practice in the sports fashion industry in a number of major cases.
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