Smith Hamilton was founded in 2014 as a boutique firm focused on corporate and commercial law, with expertise in fund management and advising senior executives, shareholders and entrepreneurs.
In 2023, the firm became part of MEUM Group, a multidisciplinary platform supporting ultra-high-net-worth individuals, their families and their businesses. During this period, our practice broadened significantly to include family, private client, education, charities and regulatory work, employment, and dispute resolution.
The law firm is now building on that growth to operate independently once again under the Smith Hamilton name. This transition reflects a natural progression in our growth and allows us to focus fully on delivering an integrated legal service under a single specialist brand, while retaining the expanded expertise developed over recent years.
For our clients, it remains very much business as usual – the same team, the same relationships, and an even broader depth of capability.
Stephen Morrall
Corporate & Commercial Lawyer
Corporate & Commercial
Employment
Stephen advises entrepreneurs, family companies, partnerships, directors, trustees and SMEs on their ownership and management structures, and a full range of corporate and commercial issues.
Approachable and empathetic, he draws on his wide experience to find solutions to the complex problems of ownership, investment, control, corporate governance, asset protection, employment and succession that arise in closely-held businesses as well as the many day-to-day legal problems that arise.
Stephen has worked in the UK and Germany, both in industry and private practice in major London firms. He speaks fluent German.
Expertise
- Agency and distribution agreements
- Company formation and structuring
- Commercial contracts
- Corporate governance
- Cross border transactions
- Employment
- Finance and security
- Funding
- Intellectual property rights
- Inward investment to the UK
- Partnerships
Education + Career
Education:
King’s College London
Year of qualification: 1978
Key firms/companies:
Bird & Bird
Babcock International plc
Blue Circle Industries plc
Middleton Potts
Dawsons LLP
Hunters Law LLP
