Advisors, partners, champions
Every Stonecracker team member brings a wealth of R&D tax knowledge, an industry focus and an understanding of the strategic implications of your choices to each client engagement.

Direct access to senior professionals
With Stonecracker you deal directly with proactive, seasoned R&D tax credit professionals. Your lead lawyer, technical and financial analysts are actively engaged in every project from start to finish.

Below are the leading members of the Stonecracker Scientific Legal Network.

Kevin Wong, LL.B.
Partner - Stonecracker Scientific Law LLP

Stonecracker Scientific Law Office was founded in 2004 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada by Kevin Wong.

As a solicitor, a founder of several technology companies, an entrepreneur and a veteran enterprise software developer, Kevin first encountered the Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program in Canada in 1993.

Since then, he has filed many millions of dollars worth of SR&ED claims, in a wide array of industries, on behalf of taxpayers in Canada and the UK.

Throughout his years of experience, Kevin developed a unique perspective of the SR&ED program being simultaneously an inventor, taxpayer, business owner and solicitor. Through this perspective, he realised a driving need for the founding of an SR&ED-focused law firm. This need was, in fact, unmet up until 2004 for the entire 20+ year history of the Canadian SR&ED program (and the 9+ year history of the UK R&D Tax Credit Programme).

Kevin is licenced as a Barrister and Solicitor in Alberta and Ontario, and is admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales.

In his down time, Kevin enjoys archery, travelling to exotic destinations and attending the theatre.

Trevor Fenton, M.A.Sc., LL.B.
Partner - Stonecracker Scientific Law LLP
Managing Director (UK) - Stonecracker Scientific Legal Network

Trevor joined Stonecracker in 2007, serving clients from his office in Vancouver from 2007 to 2011, when he relocated to Salford, England to direct Stonecracker's operations in the UK.

In his previous career in engineering, Trevor worked in a wide variety of industrial and consulting environments. He worked for manufacturers in the pulp and paper, plastics, food, automotive parts, tire and water treatment chemicals industries. He also worked for a multinational environmental consulting firm, where he was part of a team that designed, commissioned and sometimes operated industrial waste water facilities.

While attending law school, Trevor succeeded in having a second-year paper published by an international, peer-reviewed academic journal. He later served as a Senior Editor for the Ottawa Law Review.

In his spare time, Trevor enjoys long-distance running and hiking.

Trevor is admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales, and is licensed as a Barrister and Solicitor in British Columbia and Alberta. He is also a Member of the Canadian Bar Association.

Angela Byrne, LL.B.
Partner - Stonecracker Scientific Law LLP

Before joining the Stonecracker team Angela's practice focused on advocacy involving the litigation or negotiation of corporate commercial disputes for a variety of clients in a number of different industries. She has appeared on behalf of clients before all levels of court including the Alberta Court of Appeal and has advocated for clients before a number of administrative and regulatory bodies including the Alberta Securities Commission. As well, she has been involved in the litigation and resolution of disputes involving partnership, shareholder, and option agreements, commercial contracts, real estate, and estate matters. She has also been involved in Constitutional law disputes, defamation actions, judicial reviews, employment law matters, and class action suits.

Angela obtained her undergraduate degree in Political Science with Honours from McGill University and her law degree from Dalhousie University. After obtaining her undergraduate degree she lived and worked in the Canadian Arctic (Iqaluit, Kimmurut, and Tsiighetchic) and in Australia. After obtaining her law degree and before she moved to Calgary in 2001, she articled in Halifax with Eastern Canada's largest law firm and then clerked with the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.

Angela became a member of the Nova Scotia Barrister's Society in 1999 and a member of the Alberta Law Society in 2002. She is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Calgary Bar Association. She is active in her community and particularly with the Rotary Club (Downtown) and its Stay-In-School Program.

Craig Stirling, LL.B. (Hons)
Partner - Davidson Chalmers LLP

Craig is a partner in our Edinburgh member firm Davidson Chalmers. He has many years of experience in advising technology companies of all sizes on a range of matters including M&A, debt and equity fund raisings, corporate structure, commercial contracts and a wide variety of intellectual property related matters as well as of course R&D Tax Credits. Over the years he has helped countless companies from their initial start-up or spin out, through often multiple funding rounds and, on many occasions, right through to an IPO or trade sale.

In his spare time Craig enjoys spending time with his family as well as a bit of road cycling and golf.