Mediation experience

I have over 20 years experience of mediating in the most complex cases and I have a reputation for obtaining results in the most difficult circumstances.

The whole range of commercial disputes have been mediated successfully.  Claims mediated include: commercial contracts, financial agreements, fraud, insurance disputes at all levels between insurers and with insured, professional negligence claims, construction and engineering claims, property, employment and environment claims.

Below you will find examples of the disputes that I have mediated recently:

• A Group of Householders and Operators of a landfill site.

  A group claim where all the complexities of numerous claimant’s acting in concert, conditional fee arrangements, highly contested claims, high public visibility and importance were aggressively in play in the negotiations.

• A Widow and her son, and The Executors, the daughters.

  A claim for proper provision to be made for a widow, and a property claim pursued by her son mixed with the desire by all not to sell the only asset, a very substantial farm holding.  High emotion involved and creative solutions required.

• An Insured and several layers of Insurers.

  An international company selling a product into the shipping industry faced a US Class Action.  Extensive disputes between layers and between all layers and the Insured with the mediation held in London involving Parties situated in many jurisdictions.

• Local Management and a Global Oil Company.

  A small group of local managers ran their own company within a global oil company.  Discovery led to aggressive litigation, injunctions, consideration of the effect of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and delivery up of all proceeds of the fraud whilst criminal investigations were being undertaken.

• A shirt manufacturer and a wholesale fashion retailer.

  An European shirt manufacturer and distributor bought a UK shirt supply company supplying branded goods to the UK market.  A customer of the UK company refused to pay for shirts supplied.  Substantial monies were involved and polar opposite negotiation styles had led to breakdown.  Careful mediation resulted in the customer claim being settled.  A second mediation which had been proceeding in parallel dealt with a guarantee claim against the director involved throughout.

• A Hedge Fund and an American Banker.

  An American Banker was head hunted to provide new products and expertise to a UK Hedge Fund.  The relationship soured and he was dismissed.  He refused to repay a loan of £2.5 million from the hedge fund and launched aggressive proceedings and a shadowy counterclaim.

• A three day mediation involving three separate claims by a Receiver against groups of directors and advisors in excess of £10 million.

• Claims for damages for professional negligence arising out of work undertaken by an insurance broker who had arranged deficient professional indemnity insurance.  Issues of indemnity causation and loss in the financial services industry.

• A claim arising out of failures by an architect and an employer to take steps to discover and plan for removal of asbestos in a building.  The main contractor suffered close down by the Health and Safety Inspectrate and large consequential losses.  The claim was bitterly fought by all sides with multiple defendants eventually coming together to provide a settlement sum that could be accepted.