IPOS Mediation

Gill Mansfield is a full-time commercial mediator. She has over 25 years’ experience of negotiating deals and successfully dealing with and resolving difficult commercial disputes and complex cross-border and international litigation in the UK, Europe, the USA and across Asia.

Her experience spans a number of different sectors and she mediates a wide range of business, commercial, financial and corporate disputes. She is recognised as a leading mediator in the UK by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. Clients consistently praise her as ‘very effective”, “easy to work with”, “highly skilled”, “thorough’ and “well prepared” and as a mediator who “understands the commercial dynamics”. She has a reputation for quickly building rapport with clients “putting the parties at ease from the start” and for creating “a rapport conducive to settlement”. As one mediation client recently commented “Gill has an innate ability to understand what really matters to the parties at a mediation, and to forge a meeting of minds between them”.

Gill is a Fellow of Civil Mediation Council and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of several international mediation panels including the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals in New York and the WIPO panel of IP neutrals and the WIPO domain name disputes panel in Geneva.

Gill is a barrister who spent much of her earlier legal career in General Counsel and Head of Legal roles in major international commercial organisations. She has worked with technology companies, award winning media and entertainment companies, online retailers in the consumer goods sector, multi-national corporations and household name brands.  As a result she has a degree of commerciality and boardroom experience that is rare in the mediation profession.

Gill holds both UK (2006) and US (2015) mediation accreditations and had been mediating full-time since 2019. She has successfully mediated cases on both sides of the Atlantic and is regularly appointed as a mediator in cross-border and international cases. She has experience of working with interpreters and is highly skilled in cross-cultural cases that require an understanding and awareness of cultural differences.

She is recognised as “a masterful negotiator and a brilliant lawyer” and as having “a rare talent for finding practical solutions to problems very quickly”. She is described as “pragmatic”, “collaborative” and “solution-oriented”. The combination of genuine commercial expertise and business acumen, a sharp legal mind and the ability to rapidly build rapport with people from all walks of life has enabled Gill to effectively mediate a wide range of commercial disputes.

Gill is currently also a Board Advisor for a Manchester based digital agency in the “tech-for-good” and ESG / social impact reporting space that partners with charities and the third sector to combat some of society’s biggest issues with innovative digital and technological solutions. She is also a non-executive director of PRS for Music, the performing rights society for music writers, composers and publishers; she sits on the PRS Board, Members Council and Audit and Risk Committee, and chairs the PRS Distribution Committee, and the AI Sub-Committee looking at the impact and application of artificial intelligence.

Fellow of the Civil Mediation Council

CMC Registered Civil and Commercial Mediator

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Vice Chair and Elected Committee Member of the London Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn

Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution – Greater New York

Panel of IP Neutrals, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Geneva

Domain Name Dispute Panel, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Geneva

Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR), New York

BA (Hons) English and American Literature, Warwick University

Barrister: called to the Bar of Lincoln’s Inn (1994)

LLM International, Commercial and European Law, Sheffield University

Courses: Intellectual Property Law, EU and UK Competition Law,  EU Law, International Law,  International Human Rights.

Post-Graduate Diploma in Competition Law and Policy

CEDR accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator (2006)