Steven Walker KC, FCIArb
Senior Counsel
Year of call: 1999 | Year of silk: 2016
General information
Steven Walker is a British King’s Counsel.
He is a Scottish Advocate, an English Barrister and a Cayman Islands Attorney-at-Law. He is also a registered foreign lawyer at the Bar of Western Australia.
Early in his career, he worked for the international law firm Allen & Overy. Since then, he has built a formidable reputation acting as an international commercial lawyer with a specialisation in international arbitration, energy, oil & gas, mining, commercial/corporate/financial disputes, construction and engineering.
He also advises in a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters for corporate clients, private equity groups, high-net-worth private clients and family offices.
From time to time, he sits as an international arbitrator and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Ranked Band 1 for Property, Planning and Construction in Legal 500 UK 2024 edition – “A formidable and persuasive advocate. He is an excellent commercial strategist. Clients trust and like him because he has great judgement; they often see him as their knight in shining armour.”
Legal 500 2025 – Steven Walker KC ranked a Band 1 Construction Leading Silk
Areas of expertise
Legal 500 [2022] – Ranked Band 1 – Leading Silk Commercial Disputes
‘Steven is a formidable advocate, who exercises exceptional strategic judgement in international litigation. His cross examination style is concise and precise, and he executes it like a skilled surgeon.‘
Legal 500 [2022] – Ranked Band 1 – Leading Silk Construction
‘One of very few people in Scotland with an international construction arbitration practice – he is brilliant with clients and offers strength in depth.‘
Contact
T: 0131 260 5654