IPOS Mediation

IPOS Mediation (formerly known as In Place of Strife) is a leading provider of mediation services across the UK and internationally.  IPOS is home to many of the most experienced and reputable mediators in the UK, all of whom have a wide range of specialist skills underlying their wider mediation experience.

IPOS prides itself on being more than just an administrative service, assisting its clients with selecting the best mediator for their particular dispute, finding and booking the mediation venue and, where required, mediating the mediation.  IPOS’s mediators have experience in a wide range of practice areas and are accustomed to handling disputes concerning two parties to huge multi-party mediations and with values from the hundreds to the billions.

IPOS has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal as their Mediation Firm of the Year 2018, by Acquisition International as Best Civil & Commercial Remote Mediation Specialists 2020 and Best Mediation Services Provider 2018 and Highly Commended as a Mediation Provider in the National Mediation Awards 2018.

Types of disputes covered:

Civil & Commercial: IPOS’s mediators are experts in resolving all manner of civil disputes whether in the course of litigation or outside it.  Increasingly their skills are called upon to unlock deadlocked negotiations or to help resolve disputes at the pre-action stage.  Areas covered include: Insurance and Reinsurance, Partnership and Shareholder, Property, Land and Real Estate, Pensions and Life Assurance, Regulatory and Public Sector, Entertainment and Media, Family Business and Trusts, Sport, Costs Mediation, Construction and Engineering, Financial Services and Banking, Inheritance, Wills and Probate, Professional Negligence, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence and Intellectual Property.

Workplace & Employment: With a particular focus on executive level and senior management disputes, IPOS’s mediators are experts in helping employers and employees resolve workplace disputes and in rebuilding relationships so that all parties can move forwards.  IPOS can also offer training and guidance in managing organisational conflict.

Family, Family Businesses, Trusts and Relationships: IPOS’s mediators have a depth of experience in helping to resolve family disputes, whether that’s family breakdown, an inheritance issue or issues between family members in business together.  IPOS’s mediators are experienced in handling the high emotion, highly charged situations that such disputes can generate and in assisting in rebuilding relationships damaged by such disputes.

Public Sector & Regulatory

IPOS’s team of specialist public sector mediators boasts extensive experience in dealing with disputes involving public sector bodies and organisations, derived not only from mediation, but also from having represented and advised public organisations, and their opponents, in disputes.  This background allows our team to claim a true understanding of the unique range of factors that affects conflict involving public bodies, and explains, in no small part, why our team is at the vanguard of the development of mediation in this arena.

A number of IPOS’s mediators are also highly experienced trainers in mediation and in coaching parties pre-mediation to ensure that they get the best from the process.