‘I needed to do something else’ … Steve Mason on life at (and after) Mace, finding his mojo at Avison Young and trying to ditch the tie

By Dave Rogers2025-06-09T06:00:00

The man who helped to set up the firm’s consulting arm tells Dave Rogers what he did next

“I’m very proud to say: I was the only QS that was invited.”

Steve Mason is recalling the time when he turned up to Steve Pycroft’s leaving bash at The Ivy in London, himself a few weeks into saying goodbye to the firm where he had spent close to a quarter of a century.

Back in his 20s, Mason had been recruited to the business by Pycroft, Mace’s then chief executive, “when an interview with Mace was over a gin and tonic in the Oxo Tower – that used to be his favourite restaurant”. Mason thought he might go into Mace’s legal team because he had recently completed a masters degree in construction law from King’s College, London, and he liked it. But he made his name in cost consulting instead.

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