Rebecca Attree

Rebecca is one of the top 50 UK commercial mediators. Described as “an exceptional mediator” (2023 Legal 500), “outstanding” and “excellent on all fronts”, Rebecca has been consistently ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a Leading Mediator and continuously receives excellent client feedback.

Mediating a wide range of disputes in the UK and internationally, Rebecca regularly mediates disputes that relate to financial institutions, shareholder, partnership, company / commercial, family business, insurance, trusts, property, aviation, workplace, employment, and the creative industries.

Rebecca is renowned for her calm, professional, persuasive approach, and exceptional ability to build trust and rapport. She is also energetic and maintains momentum throughout a mediation. Excellent preparation of each case combined with her own extensive legal and commercial experience means she can robustly yet empathically challenge when appropriate. Described as “commercially astute as well as sensitive to each party’s issues”, clients acknowledge her great ability to encourage the parties to see the dispute from the other party’s point of view. Rebecca is comfortable mediating inter-personal disputes between parties from a wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, beliefs and diversities and speaks fluent Italian and good French.

Rebecca trained as a mediator with ADRg in the UK and INADR in the US. She has regularly mediated online since 2013 and has a highly effective presence. She is frequently praised for being a skilful communicator.

One of the first women to graduate from Downing College, Cambridge in Law, Rebecca qualified as a solicitor in the City of London (Reed Smith, then Laytons). In 1995 she set up and ran for several years her own highly successful international solicitor’s practice, Attree & Co. Since 2002 she has also been a director of a property company.  She has advised overseas governments and judicial administrations how to introduce mediation into their jurisdictions. Rebecca brings her extensive experience in business and negotiating to her mediations, that often leads to a creative approach to facilitating a solution.

Rebecca has experienced the full 360 degrees of mediation. Whilst she is now a full-time mediator, she has previously been a mediation advocate, party to a dispute, and co-mediator (where multiple parties were involved). This “all angles experience” gives her a deep understanding of the psychological issues underpinning a mediation and how to get quickly to the nub of what really matters in each mediation room.

Downing College, Cambridge Law Tripos B.A (Hons) subsequently M.A. (Hons)