Star Legal

Corporate and Commercial.

Ian is the joint managing director of Star Legal, which he founded with Philip Hands, and is also responsible for corporate and commercial work. Ian is also fluent in Japanese and has a good knowledge of, and extensive contacts in, the Japanese market.

Ian is a corporate and commercial lawyer with wide experience of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, joint ventures and collaborations, reorganisations, and general company and commercial work in a number of different sectors.

Having read law and Japanese at the University of Leeds and Kobe Gakuin University, Japan, Ian trained as a solicitor at Denton Hall (now SNR Denton) in London. Ian qualified as a solicitor and joined Herbert Smith in their Tokyo office in 2001.

University of Leeds, Kobe Gakuin University.