WHO WE ARE
Ian Worthington - Legal Specialist for Transactions - Profile
Having graduated from London University with First Class Honours, Ian qualified as a solicitor in 1982, beginning his career in the corporate finance department of City of London giant, Norton Rose. He subsequently occupied senior partnership positions in large commercial law firms in Ipswich, Nottingham and Leeds. In 2007, having tired of big firm bureaucracy and politics, he established his own niche corporate law practice, Worthington Law, which he broadened into Consilium in 2013.
Ian has wide ranging experience across most aspects of company and commercial law. He is a seasoned transactional lawyer, having worked on company and business acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs and buy-ins and debt and equity finance provision. He also has significant expertise in advising businesses on all aspects of their trading structures and contract negotiations and has particular experience in helping family companies to deal with complex shareholder relationships and the unique and delicate issues that arise for them.
Away from business, Ian spends his time supporting his sons in their rugby, taking landscape photographs and continuing to bear a lifelong cross as a Stoke City fan. He also serves as a governor of leading Leeds prep school, Moorlands.
"What others could not or would not do we would attempt, and this was a rule of our business which was strictly adhered to" - Andrew Carnegie