Background
David Ive was born in 1950. His professional life was centred in England, where he studied law, qualified for the English bar, and later practised in London.
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Ive studied at the University of Birmingham, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB). The university received its royal charter in 1900, building on Mason College, which the industrialist Josiah Mason had founded in Birmingham in 1875, and it was among the first civic universities established in England.
An LLB is an undergraduate law degree in England. Ive was admitted to the English bar in 1974, which placed him in the professional stage of legal training that followed his academic study.
Career
David Ive built his documented career in tax and trusts law in England. After his admission to the English bar in 1974, he became a partner in the tax and trusts practice at Rowe & Maw, where his work included commercial clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Rowe & Maw was a London commercial firm with a respected business law practice, and Chambers & Partners nominated it as UK Law Firm of the Year in 2000. In 2002 it agreed to combine operations with Mayer, Brown & Platt, a Chicago firm ranked among the top ten North American firms, creating Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. The merger was described as the first union of a top-ten US firm with a leading UK firm.
Trust taxation in the United Kingdom is a demanding specialty. Practitioner guides on the subject describe it as increasingly complex, and advisers use careful planning to help clients reduce their tax liabilities.
Membership
Ive was a member of the British Branch of the International Fiscal Association. The International Fiscal Association is a non-profit body of tax professionals founded in 1938 to study international and comparative fiscal law, and its branches organized members in individual countries.
He also participated in the Association of Liberal Democrat Lawyers, also known as the Liberal Democrat Lawyers' Association. The association brings together lawyers and Liberal Democrat members interested in law reform, civil liberties, and human rights, and it helps develop policy for the party. Ive served as its chair before Jonathan Marks succeeded him, and Marks chaired the association from 2001 to 2007.
References
- A liberal approach A Law Gazette article that identifies David Ive as a tax and trusts partner at Rowe & Maw and as the former chair of the Association of Liberal Democrat Lawyers.
