Charles Powell > Freeths LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Freeths LLP Offices
CUMBERLAND COURT
80 MOUNT STREET
NOTTINGHAM
NG1 6HH
England
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Charles Powell
Work Department
Commercial dispute resolution/mediation/risk and compliance.
Position
Experienced mediator who has conducted more than 400 commercial mediations. Deals with risk and compliance for the firm as well as a busy mediation practice.
Career
Trained Dodds Ashcroft; qualified 1984; Simpson Curtis 1984-1996, partner 1990; partner Shoosmiths 1996-2001; partner Freeths LLP 2001. Accredited ADR Group Mediator 1992, CEDR 1996; founder member Association of Midlands Mediators and Hexagon Mediation; Deputy District Judge.
Education
Nottingham High School; Sheffield University (LLB (Hons)).
Leisure
Leisure pursuits are mainly of the sporting variety: an enthusiastic but erratic golfer and a spectator at cricket, football and rugby. A member of the National Trust, the Guild of Freemen of the City of York and a past president of the Old Nottinghamians’ Society.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > Mediators
(Hall of Fame) (Mediators)Charles Powell
– IPOS Mediation
IPOS Mediation‘s Charles Powell is a former Freeths LLP partner, who ‘seems to have the magic touch. He convinces parties that they really do want to settle. Even parties who are going through the motions or are poles apart find themselves shaking hands at the end of a day with Charles‘. A founder member of both Hexagon Mediation Limited and The Association of Midlands Mediators, Powell has approximately 30 years’ experience as a mediator, and conducted over 600 mediations to date. He specialises in commercial and partnership disputes, professional negligence, and property claims. Other key areas are banking, asset finance and insolvency-related mediations.
Charles Powell – IPOS Mediation
IPOS Mediation‘s Charles Powell is a former Freeths LLP partner, who ‘seems to have the magic touch. He convinces parties that they really do want to settle. Even parties who are going through the motions or are poles apart find themselves shaking hands at the end of a day with Charles‘. A founder member of both Hexagon Mediation Limited and The Association of Midlands Mediators, Powell has approximately 30 years’ experience as a mediator, and conducted over 600 mediations to date. He specialises in commercial and partnership disputes, professional negligence, and property claims. Other key areas are banking, asset finance and insolvency-related mediations.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Employment > Employment
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate