Ian Coulter

Ian Coulter - Partner

Department: Corporate

Phone: +44 (0)28 9055 3310

Ian Coulter is one of the senior partners in the corporate department having joined Tughans from City of London firm Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw in 1997. Ian has been a Partner in the corporate department since 2001.

Ian specializes in mergers and acquisitions (particularly those with multi jurisdictional elements). He also has considerable experience in management buy outs and buy ins and institutional/ private equity leveraged deals. In addition he has built up an expertise in providing advice to information technology companies, particularly in relation to venture capital funding. He acts as company secretary for several information technology clients and also for Momentum (The Northern Ireland ICT Federation).

More generally Ian is a visiting lecturer in Company Law at the Institute for Legal Studies, Belfast and is also a leading member of Pro-Help, a Northern Ireland pro-bono organisation.

He is named by Chambers in their 2008 Guide to the UK Legal Profession as a leader in corporate finance and is described as ' "Commercially driven" Ian Coulter is "extremely able and gets deals done." '

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