As well as being a leading commercial mediator, I work as a

Facilitator: Resolving crises and keeping them out of the public eye.

This constitutes 50% of my practice, reconfiguring business, boardroom & key customer relationships.

Multi-party/multi-day/multi-interest facilitations include:

For the British, Irish & Welsh governments, including high-level, industry-wide Film & TV negotiations

Inside Businesses at board level, and with shareholders. Defusing volatile situations, getting relationships back on track & preventing problems escalating into litigation

Family Business & Trust & Probate cases issues (e.g. succession), working with founders & family members, a subject I cover in STEP’s ‘Business Families & Family Businesses’ Handbook

Partnership & financial arrangements including for law firms

Property disputes with local authorities/developers/residents groups

Chairing working groups, including for Industry Competitors, Oil Industry Manufacturers & Suppliers, and for Not for Profit trustees.

My facilitation work often involves working closely with lawyers & specialist advisers, and designing the right process, built around people’s needs and idiosyncrasies to ensure sensitive issues and imbalances are safely addressed and everyone feels heard

Adjudicator / Independent Panelist on Sir David Foskett’s Independent Re-Review Enquiry: reassessing losses suffered by HBOS Reading Fraud victims. Appointed in 2020 in recognition of my work as a mediator to ensure customers’ positions are, and feel, properly understood. https://foskettpanel.com/: This work is ongoing.