Ian one of the UK’s leading sports lawyers and joint head of the Sport group at Charles Russell Speechlys. He has expertise in a wide range of areas of sports law including financial regulation (salary caps and financial fair play), mergers and acquisitions, financing, sponsorship agreements, rules and regulations, governance, player transfers, player contracts and image rights.

Ian is a contributing author to the leading sports law text, “Sport: Law and Practice”. He regularly contributes to legal journals on sports law issues and writes an intermittent column for The Guardian newspaper. He regularly speaks at conferences and lectures on the BASL/DMU Post-Graduate Certificate in Sports Law and University College Dublin's Masters in Sports Management.

Ian is admitted to practise law in England & Wales, Ireland and New York.