Rebecca Attree

About Rebecca

Mediation Approach

Rebecca’s style is calm, relaxed and empathic, quickly putting people at ease. Incisive and analytical, she helps the parties at an early stage identify what they want to get out of the mediation and focus on practical solutions. She is articulate and persuasive, and will reality test where necessary. Rebecca is energetic, and tries to facilitate a resolution within the allocated time so her mediations rarely continue into the night. Rebecca is excellent at working with people from a variety of cultures.

Mediation Experience

Rebecca has a particular reputation for mediating disputes relating to contracts for sale of goods and services, workplace, agency, distribution, franchise, joint ventures, manufacture, aviation, construction, property and family business. Many of those involve international, cross-cultural and European issues. Cases have involved, for example:

• Corporate law, directors’ duties
• Sale of goods and services
• Disputes between senior managers, employees, teams, employer/employees
• Construction contracts, property, landlord and tenant, timeshare agreements
• Shareholders’ disputes
• Recovery of professional fees
• Professional negligence
• Partnership agreements
• Expropriation/ diversion of business, IPRs and goodwill Insurance related claims
• Finance agreements
• Joint ventures
• Agency and franchise agreements
• Loans and financial arrangements
• Contentious probate and Inheritance Act claims
• Family trusts and TOLATA
• Division of assets and businesses following relationship breakdown

And have been:

• Between corporates with represented and unrepresented parties
• Inter-personal or intra-family
• Between parties at varying levels in organisations

Whilst most disputes are between two parties, the largest number of parties Rebecca has worked with as a mediator has been 10 and as an adviser 30. Values in dispute range from multi million pound to small monetary values, but where parties place high value on issues such as reputation, relationships and values.

OTHER DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE

• Assisted clients as a solicitor to resolve contract disputes 1996 – 2002
• Chairman, Director and Shareholder of Attree Estates Limited, a property development company, since 2002
• Founder of Attree & Co (1995), initially a solicitor’s practice, subsequently a consultancy engaged in mediation and training
• Non- Executive Director of ADR Net 2012 -2016
• Resolved a complex probate and family business litigation as an Executor of an Estate 2002 -2004;
• Mediation Advocate;
• Used mediation herself as a business owner.