Mediation

I am an ADR Group accredited mediator and specialise in mediating disputes arising in the following situations:

  • Resolve disputes arising from business sales, including disagreements over purchase terms, warranties, completion obligations, earn-outs, and post-sale liabilities. Mediation offers a confidential and cost-effective way to reach practical solutions without lengthy court proceedings.

  • Address disputes caused by supply chain disruption, delayed deliveries, contract performance, payment issues, and disagreements between contractors and sub-contractors. Mediation helps preserve commercial relationships while finding efficient, mutually acceptable outcomes.

  • Settle disputes between joint venture partners or business partners involving management, profit sharing, responsibilities, decision-making, or exit arrangements. Mediation encourages constructive dialogue and commercially focused resolutions.

  • Resolve shareholder disputes involving governance, voting deadlocks, director disagreements, minority shareholder concerns, and business strategy. Mediation provides a confidential forum to break deadlock and protect the future of the business.

  • Resolve disputes relating to contracts for the supply of goods or services, including breaches of contract, payment disputes, service quality, delivery obligations, and contractual interpretation. Mediation helps parties achieve faster, more cost-effective resolutions.

I understand the commercial imperatives behind these disputes and how to deploy that knowledge to help parties towards resolution.

In addition, I have extensive experience in resolving disputes arising out of the administration of trusts and estates.

Commercial and private client disputes often have a number of similarities beyond complexity and value, including misaligned expectations, breakdowns in communication and loss of trust.  All of these need to be taken into consideration in order to reach a resolution.

I accept appointments either as a party-appointed arbitrator sitting as a member of an arbitral tribunal, or as a sole arbitrator appointed by the agreement of all parties, in a variety of commercial disputes.

Arbitration

Parties require, and are entitled to expect, that arbitrators, or tribunals, act with the agility and responsiveness that contemporary commercial disputes necessitate and render clear, coherent and concise decisions and awards.

My approach to arbitration is governed by the principles of independence, neutrality and impartiality.

In appropriate cases I accept appointments where one of the applicable laws to the arbitration is not English law.