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Stephenson Harwood LLP is an international law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has nine offices across Europe and Asia (Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Piraeus, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore) and over 700 staff, including 120 partners and 300 other lawyers.〔 In 2014/15 it achieved total revenues of £145 million and profits per equity partner of £763,000 (2014/15)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=20% revenue growth at Stephenson Harwood sees turnover top £145m with PEP surging to £763,000 | www.legalbusiness.co.uk )〕 ==History== When lawyer William Harwood returned to London after practising in China, he and Henry Stephenson created the firm of Harwood & Stephenson in 1875. The firm's history can actually be traced back some sixty years earlier to 1828 with City law firm Tatham & Lousada. Tathams merged with Stephenson Harwood - as the firm was by then known - in 1920 to form Stephenson Harwood & Tatham, shortening its name back to Stephenson Harwood in 1977. Two years later the firm was one of the first UK outfits to enter the Asian market, and has now been in Hong Kong for thirty years. 2002 saw the merger with City shipping specialist Sinclair Roche & Temperley, giving it a Shanghai presence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Legal Week - Stephenson Harwood )〕 Stephenson Harwood played an instrumental role in securing the release of American hostages during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. The firm acted for Bank Markazi, a leading Iranian financial institution, and became a de facto mediator between Iran and the US Authorities. At that time all overseas Iranian assets, including those of Bank Markazi were "frozen" as a result of US policy. A key factor delaying the release of the US hostages was the unfreezing of Iranian assets. Stephenson Harwood devised the actual means by which this could be done and were praised as a result by the then US Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance. In 2011, the firm acted on the largest Boeing deal in aviation history - advising Lion Air on the purchase of 230 747 aircraft in a deal worth US$21.7 billion. The signing of the deal was overseen by US President Barack Obama. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephenson Harwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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