John Irving

Partner
Company & Commercial, Health Care

Tel: 0121 698 2200
Office: Birmingham City Centre

John facilitates the realisation of clients' commercial ambitions by providing a secure legal framework, clarifying the rights and responsibilities of everybody involved, throughout the world.

John helps businesses:

  • Restructure their organisation
  • Audit their corporate governance
  • Attain commercial certainty with tailor-made terms and conditions with their customers and suppliers
  • Accommodate innovative commercial approaches to the market. eg web based trading
  • Review and implement distribution arrangements for their products and services
  • Solve disputes with trading partners before they become adversial
  • New business projects, e.g. vehicle body spray painting facility in a new vehicle plant in Eastern Europe.

Recent Cases

  • The reorganisation of an engineering company through a new LLP which has taken over the business and allowed for the introduction of new capital
  • Reviewing and advising on merchandising terms and conditions for the 2010 Papal Visit
  • Restructuring the corporate group architecture of a dynamic and fast growing IT service provider
  • Assisting a waste business to organise a national web based waste collection network
  • Negotiating on behalf of a European manufacturer of metal infrastructure goods with a proposed US wide distributor

What the Directories say

As quoted in the 2010 Legal 500, Corporate and Commercial section -'Sydney Mitchell is particularly experienced in the sale and purchase of casinos. Fahmida Ismail and John Irving are the main contacts.'

Career History

2009 – Joined Sydney Mitchell as a Partner
2001 – 2008 Staal & Staal, City of London
1988-2001 Iveco Ford Truck Limited, as Director of Legal Affairs
1984- 1988 Horizon Travel plc, Birmingham, as In-house counsel
1976-1978 – Advocate in Manchester

Qualified as a solicitor in 1976 with Distinction in Commercial law and having been awarded an Adam Partington Scholarship by the Law Society.

Education

  • Morecambe Grammar School
  • Manchester University with an Honours degree in Science

Memberships and Offices held

  • Director of Race Equality Sandwell, the remit being to achieve equality and tranquillity between races in the western part of the West Midlands.
  • John is a company secretary for a number of client groups.