Elizabeth Birch

Commercial barrister since 1980, has sat as arbitrator since 1992 and as mediator since 1996. Since 2003 Elizabeth has focussed her practice on sitting as arbitrator and mediator and this now forms the entirety of her practice. The majority of her work over the past 25 years has been in the commercial and international arena. Receives appointments to sit as arbitrator and mediator under the auspices of ICC, LCIA, CPR (New York), AAA, IPOS/ACI, LMAA, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIA), and ad hoc. Named as one of the top ten mediators in the UK in a survey carried out by ‘In Brief’ in 2002 and again in a survey conducted by Legal Week in September 2005. Comments include ‘gifted mediator’, ‘inspires confidence’, ‘gets results’, ‘the consummate professional’. Types of work handled include: agency, air law, banking and financial services, breach of warranty, brokers, commodities, conflict of laws, derivative trading, environmental disputes, freight forwarding, information technology (IT) and telecommunications, insurance and reinsurance, international trade and transportation, international sale of goods and services, international distributorship and franchise, oil and gas, partnership and joint ventures, professional negligence, shipping and maritime disputes.