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Chris Fitton

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Position

Chris was a busy commercial disputes partner for 20 years, with national/international law firms headquartered in London.

He became a full-time mediator in 2014 and now mediates c50 high value cases each year (average dispute value >£500,000). Chris was published in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame 2018.

Chris is a specialist mediator for:

  • financial services and pensions (IFAs, pension trustees and administrators)
  • professional negligence (solicitors and valuers)
  • construction
  • higher value contract/commercial disputes, including director/shareholder
  • insolvency cases

Chris regularly mediates cases for/involving:

  • the UK’s leading insurers and Lloyd’s syndicates
  • UK clearing banks
  • liquidator firms (including EY and GT)

Chris practices mostly in London and Scotland.

Career

2014 – date: In Place of Strife commercial mediator, full time

2009-2014: BLM, partner

1994-2009: Pinsent Masons, partner

1992-1994: RPC, inhouse barrister

1991-1991: Hogan Lovells, inhouse barrister

1991: Called to the bar, Inner Temple

Languages

English

Memberships

Association of Midlands Mediators – committee member since 2014

Education

LLB 2:1 Brunel University (1990)

Lawyer Rankings

London > Dispute resolution > Mediators

(Mediators)

Chris Fitton – IPOS Mediation

(Hall of Fame)

Chris Fitton – IPOS Mediation

Chris Fitton – IPOS Mediation

Mediating over 50 high-value claims during 2022, IPOS Mediation‘s Chris Fitton‘s practice predominantly covers commercial, insurance and banking disputes; and he is ‘open and friendly and puts clients at ease, whilst also having a firm grasp of the facts and legal aspects of the dispute‘. Although he mostly mediates UK-based claims, Fitton handled, in a recent 12-month period, over a dozen matters involving overseas attendees. Recent workloads include a dispute between competing factions of a deceased’s family concerning the distribution of a London property business; and a claim by the owners of a Scottish shopping centre against the construction company that built and maintained it.

Chris Fitton – IPOS Mediation

Mediating over 50 high-value claims during 2022, IPOS Mediation‘s Chris Fitton‘s practice predominantly covers commercial, insurance and banking disputes; and he is ‘open and friendly and puts clients at ease, whilst also having a firm grasp of the facts and legal aspects of the dispute‘. Although he mostly mediates UK-based claims, Fitton handled, in a recent 12-month period, over a dozen matters involving overseas attendees. Recent workloads include a dispute between competing factions of a deceased’s family concerning the distribution of a London property business; and a claim by the owners of a Scottish shopping centre against the construction company that built and maintained it.

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