Ian specialises in the following areas:
Banking and finance litigation including:
- all types of finance agreements
- guarantee claims
- lender's claims and mortgage fraud
- consumer credit
- recoveries and enforcement
Commercial litigation including:
- commercial contract disputes
- corporate litigation relating to sale and purchase disputes
- partnership, shareholder and director disputes
- breach of employee, partner or director restrictive covenants
Professional negligence including claims relating to and against:
- solicitors
- accountants
- surveyors
- architects
Recent cases of note include:
Successfully acting for an investor/shareholder (and former director of the defendant company) in a good leaver/bad leaver dispute effecting the potential valuation of a shareholding for the purposes of pre-emption rights (claim value estimated between £300k and £900k) (2011).
Advising a creditor on the enforceability of a personal guarantee following the insolvency of the primary debtor owing in excess of £150k (2011)
Advising a lender in a breach of contract claim under a service level agreement with a conveyancing solicitor with associated negligence causing loss of £214k (2011/201).
Advising a lender on a £2m valuer claim under Swingcastle and SAAMCO principles (2011/2010).
Acting for a claimant in a professional negligence action against a firm of solicitors who missed limitation in the original action - loss of chance claim settled for £35k (2010).
Successful settlement of a land dispute between two farmers and a landlord regarding occupational rights, licences to occupy, agricultural tenancies and proprietary estoppel - a £3m pa turnover business having been at stake (2010).
Successfully applied for and obtained an injunction for a Housing Association to protect its employees from unlawful harassment and intimidation by a person under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (2009).
Successful settlement of a contractual dispute for a claimant under a business sale and purchase agreement where the defendant wrongfully withheld deferred consideration of £70k alleging unsustainable breaches of warranty (2009).
Advising a claimant in a claim for conversion against a finance company who unlawfully repossessed a luxury vehicle which settled for £28k (2009).
Background
Ian gained his degree in History and Politics from the University of Sheffield before undertaking the academic stages of his legal training at Brunel University and BPP Leeds Law School. He subsequently spent time working in the forensic accountancy team at PricewaterhouseCoopers before he completed his legal training with Eversheds.
Throughout his professional career, Ian has being actively involved in the dispute resolution process.
Interests
Ian spends his spare time trying to get out and about in the countryside. He is a member of the National Trust and enjoys fell walking with his family.
