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Mr Ian Meakin

+44 (0)20 7691 2424 clerks@xxiv.co.uk

Position

Ian L. Meakin has extensive experience in dispute resolution, international business law, including fraud, and trusts and estates. Ian acts as an advocate in international commercial arbitration as well as before the English courts. He also sits as an arbitrator. Ian has been involved in some of the largest and most high profile arbitrations around (e.g. IPOC).

He is also known as an expert in sports law, advising and appearing in sports arbitrations, including the International Court of the Appeal of the FIA (Formula One) as well as FIFA, CAS and other arbitral tribunals where he has acted for teams, athletes and drivers, sponsors and sporting federations.

Ian is based in Geneva where he has practiced for the last twenty four years. He is available for English and off-shore court and advisory work. He accepts instructions both in English and in French.

Career

Call 1991

Languages

English (mother tongue) French (fluent) Italian (comprehension)

Memberships

• The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
• The Swiss Arbitration Association
• The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
• The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (TEP)
• The London Court of International Arbitration
• The International Court of Arbitration of the ICC
• The Swiss Bar Association (Continuing Legal Education Commission)
• The Athenaeum Club

Education

• King’s College, London, 1988
• Inns of Court School of Law, 1991
• The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn (Karmel Scholar), Call 1991

Leisure

The Athenaeum Club.