Ian Sheppard

Ian Sheppard

Solicitor, Senior Associate
Dispute Resolution, Professional Negligence

Tel: 01216982200
Office: Birmingham


About Ian Sheppard

 
 
Areas of work include:
  • International shareholder/director disputes
  • Injunctions – Resisting sale of property portfolio by LPA receivers, WFO dissipation of funds and assets
  • Contractual disputes
  • Personal and corporate insolvency – Setting aside statutory demands, presenting and defending bankruptcy petitions and winding up petitions
  • Professional negligence – claims against solicitors
  • Property Litigation – Removal of charges and restrictions, Service Charge disputes, specific performance of sale contract
  • Contested Probate – Inheritance Act 1975 claims, Proprietory and promissory estoppel, removal of trustees
  • TOLATA Claims
  • Kin Enquiry
  • Mediation

 

Types of Law used

  • Property Law
  • TOLATA

What the Directories say

Legal 500 - 2024-25

'Ian Sheppard is a senior member of the litigation team and he very good. He is articulate, confident and is excellent with clients. He is very approachable and nothing ever seems too much for him. He always seems in control on the case and this provides much needed reassurance to the client that everything will be okay. I would have no hesitation in recommending Ian to any of my contacts.'
‘Ian Sheppard: very hard-working and well versed in matters of commercial and property litigation, enabling a cross-over to suit the client's needs.'
‘Ian Shepherd has been informative and helpful.’
‘Ian Sheppard is brilliant. He is very knowledgeable and has the best client care skills I have ever encountered. He is attentive and you feel he wants to get the best outcome for you. He is very committed to getting the best result for you.'
‘A relatively small local firm providing high levels of personal service and a local office as an alternative to the big firms in the market.’

Legal 500 - 2023-24

‘The team now provides a broad range of expertise in overlapping fields, such as real estate and professional negligence work. This combines with the experience of longer standing members. There is, in consequence, a cohesiveness of provision for clients’.
Ian Sheppard: a careful, considered and experienced solicitor. He thinks things through and, just as importantly, thinks ahead. As a result, he has really strong strategic insight‘.

 

Career History

  • May 2023 - Senior Associate - Sydney Mitchell LLP
  • March 2022 - Associate Solicitor - Sydney Mitchell LLP
  • Dec 2010 - March 2022 - Rubris Lois King
  • 2007 - 2010 - Waldrons
UK Top Tier Firm 2022 Lexcel Practice Management Standard Birmingham Law Firm of the Year for 2021 Resolution Collaborative Family Lawyer
The Law Society Accredited in Family Law Conveyancing Quality Scheme