Stephenson Harwood LLP is a law firm with over 1,300 people worldwide, including more than 200 partners.

In 2002 the merger with City shipping specialist Sinclair Roche & Temperley gave it a Shanghai office.

Acting for Bank Markazi, a leading Iranian financial institution, their personnel became de facto mediators between Iran and America.

Stephenson Harwood engineered the means by which this could be done, causing US Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance to laud the firm.

[7] In 2011, in the largest Boeing deal in aviation history, the firm advised Lion Air on purchasing 230 model 737 aircraft worth US$21.7 billion.