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Ian 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.

Call 1991

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

King’s College, London, 1988

Inns of Court School of Law, 1991

The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn (Karmel Scholar), Call 1991