Ian has over 25 years corporate finance experience gained in investment banking and corporate stockbroking firms including Brewin Dolphin, Williams de Broë, Allied Provincial and Lloyds Merchant Bank, and as a specialist corporate finance adviser with the Capital Markets team at Grant Thornton.

He is experienced in a wide range of corporate finance activities including recommended takeovers, hostile defences, acquisitions, disposals, fund raising, including placings, rights issues and debt raising, capital re-organisations, flotations on the Official List and AIM and transfers between those two markets. Ian has advised on over 20 public company takeovers, P2Ps and hostile defences.

Ian is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Member of the Securities and Investment Institute.