Profile & Mediation Experience |
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William ("Bill") Marsh is a leading UK and international mediator, with extensive and successful experience in a wide range of commercial and other disputes. Practising since 1991, he is now amongst the most experienced mediators in Europe. |
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Mediation Experience |
His experience includes: |
- Two-party and multi-party cases (up to 9 parties)
- Multi-million pound cases, and well as medium sized and smaller ones
- A range of parties including:
- Governments
- Public bodies
- Multi-national corporations
- Domestic businesses
- Professional firms
- Individuals
- Parties from the UK, Eire, US, Canada, China, Australia, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, various African countries, Greece, Lebanon, Tunisia, Switzerland, Turkey and Saudi Arabia
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Sectors/cases mediated |
Bill's mediation experience is very broad. Examples include:
Banking
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- £60 million international banking fraud claim (4 party)
- Investment disputes
- Debt recovery claims
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Commercial contract cases |
- Commercial fraud case (9 party)
- Polish distribution agreement dispute between US and Belgium companies
- Oil futures dispute between international bank and African state-owned energy utility
- Numerious breach of acquisition warranty claims, involving listed companies (UK, Canadian, US and others) (both two- and multi-party) ranging up to £35 million in value.
- £3 million claim against UK rail operator by French systems manufacturer
- Claim by US listed company against North African distributors
- Claim against French machinery manufacturer by UK companies and finance houses (4 party)
- Dispute between a household name food producer and a distributor
- Claim concerning alleged contamination of food products
- Various disputes between telecoms companies
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Company/shareholders |
- Numerous shareholders actions (both two party and multi-party) including:
- Share valuations
- Minority shareholder actions
- "Misleading prospectus" claims (eg. 6-party)
- Share option agreement claims
- Acquisition warranty claims
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Construction/Engineering |
- Dispute concerning construction of Middle Eastern power station
- £35 million open cast coal-mining claim
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IT |
- Claim by listed energy company against its IT suppliers
- Claim by local authority in respect of automated traffic control system
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Insurance/Reinsurance |
- International re-insurance fraud dispute (4 party)
- Numerous Professional Indemnity cases (see below)
- Division of liability amongst insurers disputes
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Intellectual Property |
- Passing off action between household name retailer and branded food manufacturer
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Medical Negligence |
- The largest single medical negligence claim in UK history
- Various other claims against clinicians (eg obstetric cases)
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Professional Indemnity |
- Numerous claims against solicitors (relating to "loss of chance" claims, property transactions, etc), accountants, insolvency practitioners, company directors
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Partnership |
- Removal of law firm partner
- Break-up of partnership
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Pensions |
- Various disputes concerning inappropriate administration and use of pension funds, against former trustees and professional advisers (including 3-party, 5-party and 6-party disputes)
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Personal Injury |
- Factory accident claims
- Diving accident claim
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Sport |
- Long-running multi-party dispute over board and shareholder control of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club (multi-party)
- Dispute between directors of well-known football club (multi-party)
- Dispute between football club and former manager
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Bill is registered and accredited with CEDR. |
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Conflict Management International |
Bill is founder and director of Conflict Management International (CMI), a leading international dispute resolution and conflict management consultancy. CMI designs and delivers dispute resolution systems for governments and businesses. Amongst other assignments, Bill has been dispute resolution advisor to the goverments of Russia and Slovakia, and represented the UK government at UN (UNCITRAL) negotiations. Please visit www.cmi-consulting.com |
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Training experience |
Bill is one of Europe's most experienced trainers of mediators. He has trained mediators/conciliators from most western European countries, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, South East Asia, India, Australasia, Africa, North America and South America. He is one of the longest serving members of the CEDR training faculty, and heads up many of CMI's training initiatives. |
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Professional Background |
Bill was for 11 years Executive Director of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in London, and remains one of it leading mediators. Prior to that he was a corporate lawyer in the UK and Paris, with a broad commercial and corporate law practice (mergers and acquisitions, flotations, partnerships, venture capital, insolvency, start-up companies, etc). |
