Ian Mann

Ian Mann is our Asia managing partner and the long-term head of our Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring Group in Hong Kong.

He is a leading BVI litigator, senior tactician and thought leader. Clients benefit from Ian’s extensive insight and industry knowledge.

Ian specialises in restructuring, insolvency, shareholder 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 often to judicial, professional and academic bodies and is regularly asked to provide expert opinion on offshore law to various Courts of Law.

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.

Memberships include:

• INSOL Technical Research Committee
• Inter-Pacific Bar Association
• American Bankruptcy Unit
• International Insolvency Institute
• Harneys Listco Dispute Unit