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Ian Mann
- Partner
- Hong Kong
- +852 5806 7836
- ian.mann@harneys.com
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Biography
Ian Mann is our Asia managing partner and the long-term head of our Litigation and Restructuring practice group in Hong Kong. He is a leading offshore litigator, senior tactician and thought leader.
Ian specialises in restructuring, insolvency, shareholders' disputes and contentious trusts. He is an experienced advocate and continues to appear in Court regularly. He has been involved in every major recent restructuring in the region involving offshore entities. Ian is also a specialist in cross-border and conflict of laws dilemmas. He regularly appears on behalf of elite families and is usually retained on a long-term basis for strategic global offshore litigation advice.
Ian lectures regularly to judicial, professional and academic bodies. He is the author of both of the leading offshore textbooks on British Virgin Islands Commercial Law and Bermuda Commercial Law and is a contributor to The Offshore Litigation Blog. Ian is also a Fellow of INSOL International as well as a qualified Trusts and Estates Practitioner. He is regularly asked to provide expert opinion on offshore law to various Courts of Law.
Ian is also a member of the INSOL Technical Research Committee, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Ian is a member of the International Insolvency Institute. He is a member of Harneys Listco Dispute Unit.
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Ian is consistently ranked as a Tier 1 lawyer in Asia where he is described as being a "very well known and well trusted" practitioner in the market. "He is a very active lawyer who quickly gets across the issues, facts and laws in a case."
Chambers and Partners, 2019 -
Ian is recognised as 'quite simply the best offshore lawyer in Hong Kong' and regarded as “one of the go-to lawyers in Hong Kong for BVI and Cayman disputes”.
Legal 500, 2019 -
Ian has been ranked as a restructuring “thought leader”, he is also recognised as an expert in asset recovery, private client, and restructuring & insolvency.
Who's Who Legal, 2019 -
Ian is one of ten offshore lawyers recognised for client service in Asia
Asian Legal Business
- England and Wales (not practising)
2000 - British Virgin Islands
2008 - New York (not practising)
2010
- Inns of Court School of Law
2000 - Churchill College University of Cambridge (LLM)
1999 - University of Southampton (LLB)
1998