Phillip Howell-Richardson > Independent Mediators > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Phillip Howell-Richardson

020 7127 9223 imoffice@independentmediators.co.uk

Work Department

Mediation

Position

Phillip is one of the UK’s most experienced and widely respected commercial mediators. He has over 30 years experience of mediating the most complex cases in the UK and internationally.

Career

Phillip specialises in international commercial disputes, financial and insurance disputes, and group actions. International disputes include multi-jurisdiction and multiparty disputes, some already in arbitration; and a seven-year, several-phase mediation of an investor/state dispute. Commercial disputes include joint venture disputes, infrastructure disputes and commercial contract claims. Financial disputes include loan default, interest swap claims, insurance liability and coverage disputes, and company finance disputes. Group actions include community nuisance claims, airliner crash claims, product liability claims and financial product claims.

He has mediated disputes involving governments, global corporations, private companies, trustees of offshore, trusts as well as individuals. Cases have included claims at all levels up to several billions of dollars; the restoration of complicated commercial arrangements; and claims by very large groups of claimants. He has mediated disputes in France, Norway, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Africa, Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong – as well as the UK, where he is based.

He was one of the first European mediators to be invited to join the International Academy of Mediators as a fellow, and was a member of its board. He is a member of the ICC and its mediation panel, and has supported the ICC International Commercial Mediation competition in every year of its existence. He is a mediation fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of many international mediation organisations; and he lectures and teaches in several countries. He was one of the first European mediators to be invited to join the International Academy of Mediators as a Fellow and is now a member of it’s Board. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

In 2010 Phillip joined Independent Mediators as a full time mediator. He became a full time independent mediator in 2005. At the same time he became a consultant in ADR with KWM SJ Berwin LLP a leading city law firm with a worldwide presence and he became the head of their ADR Unit which had a long standing reputation for leadership in mediation and ADR.

Previously Phillip was a Partner in Morgan Cole for 23 years and led their commercial litigation group for 12 years as well as serving as a member of Morgan Cole’s main board.

Phillip qualified as a solicitor in 1975. Phillip first became an accredited mediator with ADR Group in 1991 and subsequently became their chairman for 14 years. He is also an accredited mediator with CEDR, an accredited mediator with the Hong Kong International Mediation Centre and a Court of Appeal mediator from that scheme’s start. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Memberships

·         Member of the International Chamber of Commerce Mediation Panel

·         Mediator member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation

·         Member of Sport Resolution (UK) panel

·         Member of the London Court of International Arbitration

·         Member of CMAP, Paris

·         Fellow of the Institute of Professional Development, London

·         Mediator member of Resolving Commercial Disputes, led by Institute of Chartered Accountants

·         International Mediation Institute Certified Mediator

·         Fellow of CMC 

·         Distinguished Fellow and Board Member of the International Academy of Mediators

·         Fellow of CIArb
 Mediator member of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre