Stuart Young

Manufacturing

Regularly acting for foreign-owned, particularly North American, manufacturing clients on their European transactions. Recent examples include Dover Corporation, A O Smith, AFCO and SanMar Corporation. Stuart helps to translate normal US transactional practices into European terms and, drawing on his experience of acting for many industrial clients, provides commercially relevant legal due diligence and risk assessment.

Stuart is head of our Automotive Group and advises numerous automotive companies on their business affairs including Ford Motor Company, Mercedes- Benz, Magna, Johnson Controls, TRW, Williams F1 and Peugeot. Stuart is deeply involved in the automotive sector and uses his experience to get to grips with the key aspects of transactions straight away.

Technology

Capitalising on the firm's market leading IP practice to offer a mixture of transaction savvy and technical strength in depth. Stuart has acted for well-established technology companies such as ADP, Misys and Iris Software, as well as global telco's such as AT&T.

Stuart has also advised companies during their initial growth phase on equity funding and other investments. The clients are not publicly known but include online media and medical software companies. Increasingly there is an overlap with Stuart's automotive experience as clients push into the connected vehicle space.