Adrian Bingham

Adrian applies a combination of business awareness, legal expertise, and logical analysis in a courteous, good humoured but precise manner.  This approach enables the parties to clarify and quantify the issues and tests their expectations, whilst at the same time Adrian establishes a good rapport with the parties and manages the process to a resolution.  He is familiar with construction and insurance industry practices, amongst other areas of commerce, and has a good head for technical detail.  He has conducted 16 mediations with a success rate of over 85%.

Adrian Llewelyn-Evans

Adrian is a full time mediator specialising in commercial disputes. He was previously a Head of Disputes at Burges Salmon, involved in heavyweight disputes. He has been an accredited mediator for more than 10 years. He regularly trains and presents at seminars including a Masterclass for ADR Group. He has mediated numerous disputes across the UK with a high settlement rate and outstanding feedback from those involved. He is mediating most weeks.

Adrian Wright

Alan Hendon

Alan has currently conducted in over 20 mediations with a settlement rate in excess of 80%. Mediations undertaken have ranged in nature from car leasing, through eviction cases to building and professional negligence disputes. With his considerable experience of the construction industry, ancillary activities and commerce in general Alan has the ability to identify and understand the important issues in a dispute.  He then applies his knowledge to get disputing parties to recognise the strengths and weaknesses of their case and take this into their account in their deliberations.

Alan Langleben

Alan is a very experienced litigation solicitor who has been a mediator since April 2000.  He has always preferred to resolve disputes in his litigation practice through negotiation and mediation before becoming a mediator himself.  He has a quiet authority and the determination to get to the bottom of the real issues in any dispute but at the same time is very user friendly, relaxed and good humoured.

Alex Bevan

Alex has been instructed to act as mediator in over 240 cases.  These have involved a wide range of commercial and civil disputes.  Mediations have been conducted and coordinated in England involving foreign jurisdictions.  Alex has a civil litigation background and wide experience of acting for both Claimants and Defendants.  He specialises in large one-off cases and is currently engaged in an international trade mark and passing off case acting for the claimant in a multi-million pound claim.  Alex’s specialist areas are Commercial litigation, Pension and Financial Services litigation and Employment law.

Alex Jakubowski

Alex is a solicitor specialising in general commercial and professional negligence litigation.  He has a particular experience of the retail sector and of professional negligence and fraud claims for lenders.  He has spent time on secondment to a large client whom he advises on a number of high value complex disputes relating to procurement of software, services and goods.  Alex's secondment has helped him to develop empathy with parties involved in a dispute because he has experienced first hand the commercial and political considerations that drive decisions.  He is member of the Law Society's Civil and Commercial Mediation Accreditation Scheme.

Alison Miller-Varey

Alison is a dedicated ADR professional, having left full time contentious legal practice to pursue a career as a mediator of civil and commercial disputes.  Alison combines analytical and incisive thinking with real understanding and empathy about the underlying issues. Though a very capable technical lawyer, as a mediator Alison prides herself on putting the people and the problem first.  She is open-minded, highly personable and committed to helping the parties achieve resolution.

Andrew Eastgate

Andrew has been leading and advising on negotiations for more than 20 years. A corporate finance solicitor, Andrew was a partner in Pinsents in Birmingham until 2004. Andrew has been conducting mediations since 2005 and combines his mediation practice with his involvement as a non-executive director of a building products company.

Andrew Olins

Key to the success of any mediation is the mediator's ability to engender an atmosphere that enables the parties to negotiate their way through seemingly intractable disputes.  Andrew has this skill and it derives from a combination of qualities that Andrew possesses.  He is a good listener, communicates in language that lay clients appreciate, and he has an innate ability to stimulate dialogue 'across the divide'.

Andrew Paton

Andrew is one of the pioneers of mediation in the UK.   He was amongst the first cohort of mediators to be accredited by ADR Group in 1990 and has subsequently written and lectured widely on the use of mediation.    He is convinced that there is barely any dispute which is incapable of resolution through mediation.   His facilitative style and easy manner help him to win the trust and confidence of the parties quickly which in turn helps him to help them to find a solution that they can live with.

Andy Mason

Anne Trapp

Anthony Fincham

Anthony Fincham was amongst the first to be recognised by Chambers Directory as a leader in the field of mediation.  He has undertaken mediations regularly for more than 15 years over a variety of different areas.

Anthony Wooding

Anthony as a solicitor has focused on resolving disputes all his professional life, either by means of negotiation, mediation, arbitration or litigation.  He has a broad dispute resolution practice, veering everything from negligence claims to neighbour disputes.  His practice embraces business and private client work and he is as comfortable with a company director as a client on low income.  As part owner of his own business and de facto chief executive of it in the last 3 years he understands only too well the commercial imperative for businesses to avoid, if at all possible, huge amounts of time and cost tied up in litigation.

Barry Frieslander

Barry has a sharp commercially analytical mind and a practical approach to problem solving.  His easy manner makes him very approachable, having the right temperament to develop rapport, empathy and trust with all the parties from the outset. He is a first-class listener and is non-judgmental, treating all parties with integrity and respect. Barry concentrates on understanding the disputant's needs, requirements and expectations. He is quick to spot the key issues and to focus minds on a realistic outcome while maintaining a flexible approach.

Ben Waters

Bethan Davies

Brind Waldron

Brind is a highly committed, professional Commercial and Family Mediator. He naturally developed polished mediation skills to settle complex issues well before he acquired any professional qualification in mediation.  He has 20 years experience in business development and problem-solving. Brind judiciously employs his advanced negotiating skills to enable difficult issues to settle.   More recently, Brind’s criminal defence work exposes him to diverse cultures and dysfunctional family dynamics.  I am passionate about the Hybrid Mediation model developed by the ADR Group as this leading-edge, versatile, unique approach gives proper recognition to commercial issues at stake and facilitates transformation of relationships from antagonism to co-operation.

Charles Marquand

Charles is a barrister, called in 1987, specialising in financial services, commercial and company matters, contentious and non-contentious.  He also advises overseas administrations, mainly in the ex-Soviet bloc and Far East, on legal and regulatory reform.  He was formerly a lawyer at HM Treasury, where he was involved in regulating the financial sector, negotiating EU directives and drafting legislation.   He therefore has extensive experience of resolving a wide range of different legal and commercial issues, problems and disputes, often with international aspects.  He is described as approachable, pragmatic and able to express complex issues clearly.  He is also a chartered arbitrator.

Charles Powell

Charles has been advising on commercial dispute resolution for over 25 years and has been an active mediator for over 15 years.  He has conducted over 250 commercial mediations.  Charles applies his broad experience with commonsense and endeavours to keep the clients focused on the solution to their problems. 

Christopher Yaffes

Clare Ward-Smith

Clare is a practising Litigation lawyer with thirteen year’s experience.  She is a qualified Solicitor Advocate (with higher rights of audience) and an accredited practising mediator.  She specialises in professional indemnity claims (especially those related to the business and financial sectors) Insurance and Commercial Litigation.  Clare is also, an avid writer and presenter (in a semi-professional capacity).  This aspect of Clare’s work requires more creative abilities than her legal role.  Clare’s broad experience in both Commercial Litigation and Communication sectors enables her to bring a combination of strength, tenacity, diplomacy, imagination and common sense to her mediations.  She has had great success and as a result, last year Clare was commissioned to produce a Mediation E-Module for Lexis Nexis, which is now on the market.

Colin Smith

Dave Owen

Dave's background as a chartered surveyor and over 30 years of property development and investment work has given him very wide experience of dealing with potential and actual disputes.  He sees mediation as being invaluable in resolving such disputes without incurring horrendous costs, both in management time and money.  As the owner of a property development and investment group, he is all too aware that management time is often diverted from creating value, rather than just dividing it.

David Daly

David has completed over 100 commercial mediations, mostly to do with land, probate or employment which is the focus of his practice as a Barrister. He is both relaxed and authoritative, bringing to the parties in mediation a unique combination of people skills. He maintains control of the process and values everybody's time. He avoids if possible keeping the parties well into the evening. He does not let the grass grow under his feet, keeps up the momentum and achieves very good results quickly. He displays a sense of humour whilst maintaining a businesslike approach.

David Evans

David is a solicitor and chartered civil engineer.  During 2008 he mediated in 20 disputes.  He consistently receives good feedback from mediating parties. He was first asked to act as a mediator in 1999. In recent years David has developed a substantial mediation practice across the UK in civil and commercial disciplines acting as a mediator in all manner of disputes involving substantial claims and several parties.

David Griffiths

David is a strong advocate of the benefits of mediation and has over 25 years experience of commercial dispute resolution.  His qualification and experience as a business executive coach have equipped him to deal with emotionally charged conflict. He combines this with a sound technical grasp of the law and for over 20 years was the leading editor of the standard handbook on company winding up procedures. He is a licensed insolvency practitioner. Specialises in all areas of commercial dispute resolution particularly insolvency and debt procedures, professional negligence, partnership, shareholder and banking disputes.

David Hooper

David has mediated a wide variety of problems ranging from boundary disputes to complex partnership dissolutions, compensation claims and contractual disputes relating to both property and businesses. He is an excellent communicator, with an incisive, analytical mind.  He is a lateral thinker which, combined with his professional experience, enables him to help parties find practical solutions to their disputes.

David Madden

Consistent strengths demonstrated throughout David's career in the Diplomatic Service, and thereafter as Political Adviser to the EU Peace-Keeping Force in Bosnia and Hercegovina, are negotiating expertise, strategic thinking and dispute settlement. He believes in helping get results through his patience and diplomatic skills, and has consistently shown an ability to help parties find a way through their difficulties. He has an open and down-to-earth approach, marked also by friendliness, wit and tact.