Ian has a mixed practice involving serious fraud, regulatory investigations and professional discipline.
He specialises in advising corporate and individual clients under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, Customs and Revenue, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the Financial Services Authority, and the Crown Prosecution Service and has acted in large money laundering cases, corruption cases, cases of insider dealing and market abuse and other serious fraud investigations.
In addition, he regularly advises solicitors and other professional and non-professional clients on restraint orders, confiscation proceedings, dawn raids, search and seizure, and production orders. As a specialist in solicitor’s conduct, he can also advise on whether material is subject to confidentiality and/or legal professional privilege.
Ian appears regularly as a defence advocate at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal with considerable success and advises solicitors under investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority at all stages of the process, including making representations against the imposition of practising certificate conditions, and advising whether those conditions should be appealed to the Administrative Court. He also represents members of the Chief Police Officer’s Staff Association in internal disciplinary investigations and disciplinary proceedings.
With a background in serious crime at a well known London firm, Ian retains an interest in general crime, and is presently representing a number of clients on a private basis.
Ian is a Solicitor Advocate (Civil and Criminal Courts). He is a member of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; the London Criminal Courts Association; the Proceeds of Crime Lawyer’s Association; and the International Bar Association.
Ian Ryan has been appointed as an independent member of the FA's Agents Panel by the Football Regulation Authority.
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Recent work advising
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on a successful appeal (at the Court of Appeal) of the Crown Court's refusal to discharge a pre-charge Restraint Order (In re B [2008] WLR (D) 117). Please click here to read the ICLR report on this case.
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with William Clegg QC of 2 Bedford Row, of the managing director of a company that sold three aircraft to the front man for a drug trafficking organisation operating out of South America. The client was found not guilty of all five counts of money laundering.
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Alexis Stenfors, a senior trader with Merrill Lynch of London who negotiated a five year Prohibition Order with the FSA which crucially did not conclude that Mr Stenfors had acted dishonestly. Please click here to read the full report on this case.
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in respect of two separate allegations of overseas corruption involving major British companies.
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on the successful defence of a solicitor investigated under the Fraud Act. The solicitor was not charged after representations to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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a solicitor in respect of an ongoing SFO investigation.
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the Brazilian footballer Robinho in a serious assault allegation. Please click here to read media coverage of the matter.
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Private Eye as an expert witness in the Napier case. Please click here to read the full report on this case.
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two senior officers in the Metropolitan Police in the IPCC Stockwell II Enquiry, and represented a senior officer in the recently concluded Flanagan investigation.
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two senior members of the Labour Party in the Cash for Honours enquiry and the related Abrahams investigation.
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clients in the SFO BAE, Torex, and Pharmaceuticals investigations.
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