Ian Marsh
Ian Marsh practised law for over 30 years, and was a private client partner with law firms in London and New York for 16 years, before founding familydr
Limited in June 2006.
During that period, he acted as trusted adviser to a number of successful families and their business and philanthropic interests. He advised them how to organise, manage and preserve their wealth, and how to resolve issues of governance and succession; he became trustee (or protector) of their family and charitable trusts, and director of their companies; and he was instrumental in resolving a number of complex multi-party, multi-jurisdictional, “family wars”.
Through familydr, Ian now coaches family members in effective communication, negotiation and conflict resolution; facilitates difficult/high emotion family discussions; designs and implements bespoke family governance processes; and acts both as conciliator of family conflicts and as mediator of trust, probate and succession claims and disputes over family businesses. Ian’s experience includes multi-party and multi-jurisdictional conflicts, with values in issue up to US$200 million.
Ian is member of:
- The Law Society of England & Wales;
- The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators;
- The Association of Contentious Trust & Probate Specialists;
- The Chartered Institute of Taxation; and
- The Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners.
He is a member of the Steering Committee of the STEP Mediation Special Interest Group, and is a former member of the Law Society’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.
Ian was trained as a civil and commercial mediator (basic and advanced) by MATA, and is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. He was trained as a family mediator by the Family Mediators’ Association/ADR Group.