How can Taylor Wessing help?
The digital consumer economy is a ‘hyper-market’ – characterised by massive change and relentless speed. In this environment, commercial strategy can soon fall out of alignment with market reality. From new regulation and customer needs to changing investor expectations and financial conditions, multiple derailers threaten growth.
Leading marketplaces, eCommerce companies and content platforms choose Taylor Wessing – the legal partner that understands the playbook for fast action and lasting success. Our full service expertise sits at the sweet spot of tech industries and investor communities, meaning we are ideally positioned to advise ambitious data and knowledge-rich companies at key stages of growth.
Our areas of focus include:
Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Information technology
Brands & advertising
Venture capital
Tech litigation
Data protection & cyber
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Our team
Ian is a partner in the corporate technology team, specialising in advising corporate, technology and private investment clients on domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions.
He has a specific focus on the technology and consumer sectors and is recognised as “particularly experienced in technology transactions”.
Ian advises a wide range of corporate and technology clients on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, corporate venturing and investment transactions. He also acts for private equity institutions, management teams and selling shareholders on private equity investments and related portfolio transactions.
Ian is the founder and former managing director of an investor funded technology/consumer brand. He has genuine, hands-on experience of understanding the real world issues impacting both investors and owner managed businesses, including building a start-up brand, creating an innovative product, securing investment and developing a growth stage business. In this role Ian received a Certificate of Merit in the IoD Scotland Director of the Year Awards and won the Scottish EDGE Entrepreneurship Award.
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Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive.
Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results.
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