Carolyn is a full time mediator, having been a solicitor for over 25 years.
Trained as a commercial and banking litigator, she specialised in corporate and personal insolvency matters from 1996, working with a wide variety of clients ranging from global financial institutions to small businesses.
Carolyn’s experience in handling transactions, disputes and complex advisory work for businesses and individuals in financial crisis results in a calm and measured approach to mediation.
She also has experience as a law firm partner, the head of a substantial insolvency team, being one of her firm’s operational board members and an office managing partner, as well as a company director and mentor.
She brings extensive people management skills to her mediation practice and actively looks to develop these further. She has completed - and recommends - the Mediator Locator Neurodiversity Mediation training run in collaboration with The Brain Charity.
Carolyn is also a Fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals, a member of the Association of Partnership Professionals and a member of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators.
The following is a recent - and typical - testimonial, which was given by a senior professional working in dispute resolution
“I was impressed by your efforts at early engagement with the parties, which helped set the stage for the day itself; there was good rapport and mutual understanding from the outset as a result of the pre-mediation telecons.
At the mediation, you were calm and collected throughout and I found your thorough knowledge of the sector of great assistance with one client, in particular.
Of especial help were your steers on the framing of offers and then with the precise phrasing of the settlement agreement. All in all, our team was very grateful for the manner in which you handled the matter and brought the parties to the resolution of a dispute which I, for one, thought had the makings of becoming somewhat intractable!”
Noted as “one of the most client-centred lawyers I have ever come across” and for being “tenacious and extremely able”.
Carolyn is ranked as a Leading Mediator in Legal 500’s - 2022, 2023 and 2024 editions.