Tim Robinson

Tim Robinson is a law graduate of Oxford University and holds an MA.

He was a partner in a large City of London law firm from 1982 to 2003, where he founded and headed the firm’s specialist Travel & Leisure Law department, which soon established itself as a market leader. Clients from around the world included tour operators, agents, consortia, hotels, airlines, NTOs and the MICE sector.

He served as legal advisor to many trade associations, including the Association of British Travel Agents, European Tour Operators Association, Incentive Travel & Meetings Association and the Pacific Asia Travel Association. In addition to clients’ legal work, Tim also undertook extensive lobbying activities at national and European levels. He was the author of numerous articles on legal and commercial issues and a frequent conference speaker.

Tim sat on many advisory committees including for the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority, Government deregulation and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Travel Industry Consultation Group.

In 2004, Tim left the legal firm to found the consultancy ‘Equator International’, in order to undertake a broader range of travel industry work. He was appointed a non-executive director of several travel companies, an insurance and finance group and a media company. He undertook a wide range of projects relating to product development, risk management and due diligence, insurance, regulatory compliance, restructuring.

In 2006 he was invited by a client, the Globus/Cosmos vacation company, to establish a new office for their financial and operating headquarters in Nassau, Bahamas, where he is now based as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs.