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Libralex Art Law Conference 2023

I’m honoured to have convened the 3rd Libralex Art Law Conference…

Rebecca Attree M.A. (Cantab), Accredited Civil and Commercial and Workplace Mediator and Solicitor

I am an experienced mediator who specialises in helping parties resolve commercial and workplace disputes.

With over 35 years’ experience in assisting global businesses and individuals to resolve disputes and reach agreements, I am ranked as a Tier 3 Leading Mediator in Legal 500 UK 2023 (making me in the TOP 50 UK mediators), in Band 2 of the High Net Worth Guide of Chambers & Partners 2022 and consistently listed in Chambers & Partners Review of Mediators in the last 5 years.

My main sectors of expertise are mediating disputes relating to financial institutions, partnership, shareholder, commercial contracts, family office disputes, aviation, property, construction and workplace disputes. I am fully accredited to mediate in the UK, the US, and online, and have considerable experience of international disputes.

Mediation is an excellent way to resolve disputes without the costs of going to court or arbitration or formal management procedures such as grievance or disciplinary processes.

To find out more about how I can help you as a mediator, please watch my video.

My free webinar Successfully Mediating Family Business Disputes is available to watch here

Upcoming Events

Mediation and Dispute Resolution for In-house Lawyers 25 September and 4 December 2023 For more info click +

A half day webinar  (1.30- 5) delivered by Rebecca Attree on behalf of Falconbury/ IPI Academy. For more information and to book see here 

International Dispute Resolution and Mediation 7 September 2023 CIArb Western Counties. For more info click +

Mediation is highly effective dispute resolution method and endorsed by the English courts.
But does mediation work in an international conflict too?
How are disputes resolved in other countries?
What are the attitudes to mediation in different countries and cultures?
And most importantly what can we learn from each other?

CIArb Western Counties (in collaboration with DACB and BCCG) invites you to attend a virtual event. Our Chair and Vice Chair (Sean Gibbs and Kai von Pahlen) will interview distinguished mediators from different jurisdictions:

 England: Rebecca Attree
 France: Pierre Servan-Schreiber
 Germany: Ulrich Kremer

We will discuss their experiences in handling disputes in an ever increasingly international world, how businesses from different cultural backgrounds may come to the negotiation table with entirely different expectations and what lessons we can learn to resolve disputes in the most efficient way.

The event will be virtual and take place on 7 September from 2.30pm to 4pm.
If you would like to attend this virtual event, please email Kai von Pahlen at kvonpahlen@dacbeachcroft.com

Speakers

Pierre Servan-Schreiber
For more than thirty years, Pierre has been one of the leading lawyers in France for strategic cross-border acquisitions as well as complex litigation.
In recent years Pierre has been acting as a mediator in high profile matters involving large groups, companies and family businesses. He is an accredited mediator with several prominent US, British and French Mediation centers. Pierre is also the co-director and co-author of Deals de Justice, a widely acclaimed book published which analyzes the new methods of investigations and sanctions imposed by US governmental authorities. The book won the O. Debouzy literary prize for 2013. Pierre was also selected by French leading economic newspaper Les Echos as one of the 200 French individuals who best represent France abroad and by Décideurs Stratégie Droit Finance as one of the top 50 business lawyers in France.
https://pierre-servan-schreiber.fr/en/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierre-servan-schreiber-ba16097/

Rebecca Attree
Rebecca of IPOS Mediation is one of the top 50 UK commercial mediators. Described as “an exceptional mediator”, she has been consistently ranked in the directories as a Leading Mediator. Mediating a wide range of disputes in the UK and internationally, Rebecca regularly mediates disputes that relate to shareholder, partnership, company / commercial, family business, insurance, trusts, property, aviation, workplace, employment, and the creative industries. Rebecca frequently mediates inter-personal disputes between parties from a wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, beliefs and diversities and speaks fluent Italian and good French. She is the Chair of
the Dispute Resolution Working Group of Libralex EEIG. Rebecca is also qualified as to mediate in the US with INADR. She frequently mediates international disputes online. A Cambridge graduate and former City of London solicitor (Reed Smith, then Laytons), Rebecca has advised overseas governments and judicial administrations how to introduce mediation into their jurisdictions, and trained judges and other professionals overseas to become mediators. She is the Chair of the Dispute Resolution
Working Group of Libralex EEIG and Editor of the Libralex ADR Guide.
https://mediate.co.uk/mediator/rebecca-attree/
https://www.rebeccaattreemediator.com/publication/alternative-dispute-resolution-international-guide/

Ulrich Kremer
Ulrich is Legal Counsel for Germany at SwissRe International SE,
Niederlassung Deutschland (SwissRe CorSo).
Ulrich has 23 years of insurance industry experience, mostly in Legal/General Counsel or Claims Department Manager functions, with various underwriters and involvement in a broad variety of disputes and negotiations. Ulrich obtained his mediator´s certificate at Deutsche Anwalt Akademie in 2014. He has a significant track record of conducting mediations and applying special mediation principles and techniques in business, employment, not-for- profit organization and inheritance disputes, inside and outside the insurance industry, and including private practice activities. Ulrich believes that in Germany mediation is still largely underestimated and actively promotes the use of mediation by German businesses and individuals.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrich-kremer-a637b0a4/

CIArb Western Counties

Sean Gibbs, Chair
Sean is CEO of global expert witness company Hanscomb Intercontinental. Sean’s primary expertise is quantum and as well as acting an international expert witness also sits as mediator, arbitrator, adjudicator, expert determiner and dispute board member. He has held directorships and senior commercial positions with contracting and consultancy firms in the UK and Internationally. With over 30 years’ experience in the onshore and offshore construction and engineering industries across the globe Sean
has worked across the continents of Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the Americas. He is Junior Vice Chair of the Adjudication Society, Council Member of the Society of Construction Law (UK), ICP Member of the International Bar Association, Region 2 Director of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and founder of UK Adjudicators and HK Adjudicators. Sean is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators and a FIDIC President’s List Adjudicator and Mediator.
www.linkedin.com/in/sean-sullivan-gibbs

Kai von Pahlen, Vice Chair
Born and raised in Germany, Kai moved to Britain in 2002, to study law at university. Kai is now a lawyer at DACB in Bristol and specialises in dispute resolution, both domestic and cross-border. He is experienced in mediation and court (including High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court) and recognised for his legal work in both
Chambers UK and the Legal 500. He regularly delivers legal training as a speaker of MBL Seminars. In 2017, Kai was one of 40 DACB lawyers who cycled from Bristol
to Paris and together raised more than £100,000 for charity. Since 2020, Kai has been the Honorary Consul of Germany in Bristol, a role in which he promotes British-
German relations and friendship. His consular work includes reviewing and certifying documents for international use, akin to a notary public. He is also a trustee of the German Saturday School Bristol.
https://www.dacbeachcroft.com/en/gb/people/kai-von-pahlen/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaivonpahlen/

Rebecca Attree is ‘an exceptional mediator. She is intelligent, well prepared, has excellent inter-personal skills, and
works tirelessly to try to conclude mediations with a satisfactory outcome‘. 

Legal 500 2023

“Rebecca has a calm, professional manner which provides a sense of trust in the knowledge in which she delivers”

 

(High Net Worth Guide of Chambers and Partners 2022).

“excellent on all fronts: commercially astute as well as sensitive to each party’s issues.

High Net Worth Guide of(Chambers and Partners 2022).
Calm, persuasive and fair”

 

(Legal 500 2022).
Particularly user-friendly and experienced”

 

(Legal 500 2022).
Tier 3 Leading Mediator Rebecca Attree is “a professional, efficient and very approachable mediator. She has an effective and adaptable approach, and is always prepared to keep up efforts to get the deal done”.
(Legal 500 2021).
“Rebecca Attree of Attree & Co stands out to clients for her “very calm and assured” approach, and “great ability to encourage the parties to see the dispute from the other side’s point of view.”
(Chambers & Partners 2019).
“My thanks to you Rebecca for the mediation which I thought worked very well on Zoom”
SolicitorProperty and shareholder dispute.
“Hugely impressive…incisive, quick, and sees both the main point of an issue and the angles and implications”

 

Solicitor and Mediator
“Rebecca was outstanding.”
Head of ComplaintsMajor Trade Association

“Many thanks to you for all your help which was much appreciated. You should be at the UN.”

 

Partner and Head of Dispute ResolutionTop 500 Solicitors’ firm
“Rebecca was excellent and I would definitely use her again”
Solicitor to defendant and claimant in two actionsmulti-party corporate dispute
“Your approach was professional, yet informal.”
McKenzie FriendInheritance Act Claim