Independent Mediators

Mediation

"First-rate mediator” Kate Jackson is “the ideal mediator for complex disputes, bridging unbridgeable gaps without clients feeling pressured”. Published independent legal directory comments describe Kate as “charming, hardworking, and deft at bringing parties together”. The guides add: “She also possesses the ‘appropriate emotional intelligence combined with intellectual rigour, and has a very measured style’, is ‘very calm, authoritative, confident and assertive’, an ‘extremely capable mediator’ who ‘works extremely hard to get a result’.”

Dual-qualified, in England and Wales, and in New York. CEDR-accredited in 2005, Kate practises solely as a commercial mediator, with a thriving practice encompassing a broad range of commercial, banking, insurance, intellectual property, IT, employment, private client, property and professional negligence disputes.

Kate has over 25 years of dispute resolution experience, previously practising as a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer in both London (with Allen & Overy LLP) and in New York (with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP).  She has also spent 2 periods working as a lawyer in investment banks, a 6 month secondment to Morgan Stanley’s New York in-house Institutional Securities litigation team in 2000 and 2 months with Barclays’ Corporate and Investment Banking litigation team in 2012.

Kate is experienced in handling high value, high profile disputes and is able to understand new and complex cases quickly.  Her clients have ranged from large public and international companies, where Kate is used to dealing at CEO and board level, to individuals with personal grievances. Kate is commercial, innovative and numerate.

Kate is ranked in band one of legal directories Chambers UK and The Legal 500.

·       Fellow of CMC