Stephen is the Head of Bird & Bird\'s Central European (CE) practice with offices in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. He recently joined the firm to head up its CE practice.

Stephen has extensive experience in advising multi-national clients on their CE investments both from a corporate and commercial law point of view. He has been advising clients in the CE region for the past 12 years, previously as Head of Telecom/Media/Technology (TMT) for CE at Linklaters and then in a boutique firm that he established.

Stephen has been ranked in the top tier for TMT consistently over the last four years in all major directories and was ranked by Euromoney in 2007 as one of the Top 25 TMT lawyers in the world.

Stephen is qualified in New York, DC, Czech Republic (foreign) and Ontario (Canada) and has an LLB (Windsor) and JD (Detroit Mercy). He founded a Silicon Valley branch of his law firm Kines and was VP Business & Legal Affairs in Silicon Valley for a tech start-up that had its development centre in Prague. Stephen still spends part of his time in Silicon Valley dealing with investments in that region into CE.

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