Ian Pattinson
Partner
Daedalus House
Station Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB1 2RE
Experience
Ian joined Birketts in October 2009. He is a partner and heads our family and matrimonial team in Cambridge.
Ian specialises in family law, particularly involving high net worth financial cases. He has over thirty years experience, most notably in cases involving the preservation of business, farming and trust assets. Wherever possible, he conducts his own advocacy in the County Court.
A member of the Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk Resolution committee and a trained Collaborative lawyer, Ian believes in adopting a non-confrontational approach and is regarded as a sympathetic and practical commonsense practitioner by clients and peers alike. Ian is accredited by Resolution as a specialist in Advanced Financial Provision cases as well as Advocacy - Financial Provision.
He is ranked in 'Band 1' for family law by the legal directory, Chambers [UK 2010] and as a leader in his field in Legal 500. He has been described in these publications as someone "who confidently navigates often complex marital finances" and as a "robust practitioner, a trained collaborative lawyer as well as a good litigator".
Other Information
Outside the office, Ian's main interest is golf and just some of his achievements include the position of Chairman of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club's Rules of Golf Committee 1999-2003 and acting as a Rules official at The Masters Tournament in Augusta, the US Open and the Open Championship. Since 2004, he has fulfilled the role of Rules 'expert' with the BBC TV commentary team at the Open Championship. He is also now Chairman of the R&A Equipment Standards Committee which is tasked with establishing and enforcing the regulations governing the design and performance of golf clubs and balls on a worldwide basis.
