Ian Coupland
Partner and Head of Commercial & Litigation Dept
020 3131 0867
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iancoupland/
Ian is a partner and Head of Commercial and Litigation at Lewis Nedas law, having previously been a Partner at two top-200 law firms.
Date of admission: 1 Oct 1988
Department: Commercial & Litigation Dept
Office location: Mayfair
Background
He has over 35 years’ experience in dealing with all aspects of Business and Commercial Law, Employment, Insolvency, Litigation and Regulatory Law. He qualified in 1988.
Recent trial successes and instructions
- Successfully acted for an Estate Agent company in a 6 day Trial against former Partner who tried to take both clients and approx. £300K worth of income for work done and obtained an Indemnity costs order.
- Successfully acted for one of the largest UK Logistics companies in a 3 day Trial to recover approx. £200K from a Customer for breach of contract.
- Successfully acted for a Solar Panel company in a 3 day Trial recovering approx. £150K from its agent who had tried to get payment direct from the Customer.
- Acting for a Biomedical Engineering company in a £7m breach of contract claim against an American worldwide manufacturing company which has involved both Mediation and High Court proceedings.
- Acting for the Founder and Main Shareholder of a Podcast company in an Employment and £9m Share Valuation dispute who has been unfairly dismissed.
- Acting for an investor who is seeking to recover approx. £400K paid to a company based on misrepresentations which includes an application for pre-action disclosure to the High Court.
- Acting for a Canadian company who is claiming the return of £350K wrongly paid by an FX company to an unauthorised 3rd party.
- Acting for a Commercial Landlord in London who is seeking to recover approx. £500K from Tenant and Personal Guarantors.
- Acting for a Freehold Company in Central London in Forfeiture Proceedings against the Leaseholder.
- Acting for a new Residential Property owner in possession proceedings against previous owner.
- Acting for a Commercial Scaffolding company in opposing Possession Proceedings brought by its Landlord.
- Acting for a Central London Residential Tenant in dispute with Landlord over Licence to Alter.
- Acting for a Dubai based company in property dispute with UK Trustee in Bankruptcy.
- Acting for a Saudi Arabian based family in Probate dispute in relation to UK assets.
- Acting for a Textile Company in professional negligence claim against financial advisors and negotiations with HMRC.
- Acting for an individual in professional negligence against a Solicitors firm over the failure to be given proper Independent Legal Advice.
- Acting for US based service providers in chasing monies due from UK company.
- Acting for a UK company in dispute with Australian based IT service provider.
- Acting for one of the Partners in a long running Property Partnership dispute.
- Acting for a professional firm in relation to a delivery up of documents claim by a Trustee in Bankruptcy.
- Acting for the main Shareholder and Creditor in putting a Bathroom and Kitchen company into Administration.
- Acting for a Legal Charge holder to appoint a Receiver to recover monies due.
- Acting for an ex-wife in Bankruptcy Proceedings against former husband.
Podcasts
Blogs
- “They haven’t paid, and now i think they are hiding their assets”
- “OMG! I’ve been served with a freezing order: What now?”
- COVID-19: Insolvency & Restructuring FAQs
Legal 500
"Ian is a Partner at Lewis Nedas Law and head of its Commercial & Litigation Dept, having previously been a Partner at two top-200 law firms. He qualified in 1988 and has over 25 years’ experience dealing with all aspects of Business and Commercial Law, Civil Litigation, Employment, Insolvency and Restructuring, Regulatory Law and Professional Disciplinary; in particular defending those who face SRA disciplinary investigations and proceedings."
"He is well known for his Litigation Expertise including heavyweight contractual and commercial disputes, frauds, partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, debt collection claims and property issues and he has acted for many national and international companies and financial institutions. He is well used to obtaining urgent injunctions, especially freezing orders (both in the UK and in other jurisdictions) and he is an authorised supervising solicitor for search and seizure orders. Additionally, he has also lectured extensively to fellow lawyers, surveyors and other organisations on the subjects of Business Lease Renewals, Dilapidations and Remedies for Tenant Default. He is also a member of the Property Litigation Association."
Ian Coupland has been cited as a notable lawyer by The Legal 500 2022 Edition. Click here to see Ian's Legal 500 profile in full.
Interests
Ian was born in Hull, as was his wife. He is an avid sports fan, still plays football, and he and his wife spend a lot of time following Hull City home and away (including Wembley!)
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