Darrell Stephenson

Partner

“Any task you agree to take on should be performed to the best of your abilities.”

Managing and understanding risk.

With running any business, there is risk. Darrell’s clients come to him looking for help to manage and understand the risks they face, while completing transactions and procurements in a professional manner and on a timely and cost-effective basis.

Representative matters

Darrell has both a diversified practice and client base. His clients include governments, financial institutions, chartered banks and energy providers. Some examples of the things he has done for these clients include:
  • Acting for major financial institutions in various capacities, including financing, security enforcement and corporate restructuring matters.
  • Acting as counsel to both government and industry in connection with public-private partnership and industrial projects.
  • Acting for Canadian chartered banks and other lenders in the negotiation, preparation and enforcement of credit documentation and in all types of insolvency proceedings.
  • Negotiating and preparing major business and industrial agreements.
  • Establishing and financing public-private partnership and development arrangements.

Areas of practice:

  • Asset Based Lending
  • Banking
  • Corporate/Commercial
  • Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
  • Energy and Natural Resources
  • Marine
  • Government/Regulated Industries
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Project Finance

BAR ADMISSION(S)

New Brunswick, 1986

LAW SOCIETY(IES)

Law Society of New Brunswick

EDUCATION

University of New Brunswick, LL.B., 1985
University of New Brunswick, B.B.A., 1983

ACTIVITIES

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, Business Development Committee, Stewart McKelvey
  • Past member, Marketing Committee, Stewart McKelvey
  • Past chair, New Brunswick Corporate Commercial Practice Group, Stewart McKelvey
  • Past chair, Associates/Students Committee, Stewart McKevley New Brunswick

LANGUAGE(S)

English

LEXPERT RATINGS

Banking (Including Financial Institutions Regulatory Law)
Corporate / Commercial
Mergers and Acquisitions

MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS

BV

EXTERNAL RATINGS

Best Lawyers 2011 (Banking Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Project Finance Law) Best Lawyers 2006, 2008-2011 (Insolvency and Financial Restructuring)

Suite 1000, Brunswick House
44 Chipman Hill
Saint John, NB, Canada
E2L 2A9

P 506.632.2790
F 506.634.3573

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Providing legal services through a professional corporation.

LEGAL ASSISTANT(S)

Trudy Walker

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