Ian Foster > Star Legal > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

Star Legal
3 RICHMOND HILL
CLIFTON
BRISTOL
BS8 1AT
England

Work Department

Corporate and Commercial.

Position

Ian is the joint managing director of Star Legal, which he founded with Philip Hands, and is also responsible for corporate and commercial work. Ian is also fluent in Japanese and has a good knowledge of, and extensive contacts in, the Japanese market.

Ian is a corporate and commercial lawyer with wide experience of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, joint ventures and collaborations, reorganisations, and general company and commercial work in a number of different sectors.

Career

Having read law and Japanese at the University of Leeds and Kobe Gakuin University, Japan, Ian trained as a solicitor at Denton Hall (now SNR Denton) in London. Ian qualified as a solicitor and joined Herbert Smith in their Tokyo office in 2001.

Education

University of Leeds, Kobe Gakuin University.