Ian commenced his articles at Cliffe Dekker & Todd in 1991 and remained with the firm until September 2012. Ian moved onto ENSafrica as Director, joint head and subsequently joint business unit leader of the corporate commercial department. Ian rejoined CDH in 2021.

Ian has advised on the following: 

• Advised Adcock Ingram on the disposal of 53.47% of the entire issued share capital of Ayrton Drug Manufacturing.
• Advised the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela Tribe on its disposal of shares in Bakgatla Pallinghurst JV.
• Advised the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela Tribe on its disposal of shares in Itereleng Bakgatla Minerals Resources to Pilanesberg Platinum Mines.
• Advised Business Connexion on the acquisition by Telkom of the entire issued share capital of Business Connexion.
• Advised Capitalworks and certain senior management and executives of Much Asphalt on the acquisition of the business of Much Asphalt from Murray & Roberts. 
• Advised RMB Ventures, Capitalworks and certain senior management and executives of Ocon Brick, Technicrete and Rocla on the acquisition of the businesses of those entities from Murray & Roberts. 
• Advised a consortium led by Ethos and RMB Ventures on the acquisition of the Waco Group on its acquisition of the RTT Group.
• Advised Grindrod on its acquisition of the entire issued ordinary share capital of Racec by way of a scheme of arrangement.
• Advised Harmony on the disposal of Evander Gold Mines to Pan African Resources.
• Advised Harmony on its acquisition of full ownership of the Hidden Valley mine in Papua New Guinea.
• Advised Kleoss and Leaf Capital on the acquisition of a controlling interest in TrenStar.
• Advised Mpact on its acquisition of a controlling interest in Detpak South Africa on its listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
• Advised Transpaco on its acquisition of East Rand Plastics.
• Advised Vodacom on its acquisition (abandoned) of Neotel.
• Advised Vodacom on its acquisition of an indirect 34.94% interest in Safaricom from Vodafone.
• Advised Vodacom Tanzania on its IPO and listing on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange.
• Advised Wescoal on its acquisition of Keaton Energy.
• Advised Edcon on its various restructurings.
• Advised the Business Rescue Practitioners of Edcon on the disposal of Edcon's Edgars and Jet businesses in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini.
• Advised Sibanye-Stillwater on its acquisition of the Sandouville nickel hydrometallurgical processing facility in Normandy, France from Eramet SA.
• Advised Sibanye-Stillwater on its proposed acquisition of the Santa Rita nickel mine and the Serrote copper mine, both located in Brazil.

• Chambers Global Guide 2015-2023 ranked Ian in Band 1 for Corporate/M&A
• IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate Guide (including Energy and Infrastructure) 2015 - 2022 ranked Ian as a leading lawyer and highly regarded for Capital markets: Equity, Capital markets: Debt, Private Equity, and M&A.
• The Legal 500 EMEA 2015-2022 listed Ian in the "hall of fame" for Commercial Corporate/M&A, and Mining. In 2022 he was ranked for Banking & Finance.

Education

• BA, University of the Witwatersrand
• LLB, University of the Witwatersrand
• Leadership in Professional Service Firms, Harvard Business School
• Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa