Karl Mackie CBE – CEDR Chambers  A ’consummate professional mediator’, Karl Mackie CBE of CEDR Chambers is ‘calm and highly experienced. He is able to ask the tough questions in a way that is never aggressive, and helps parties think about both their arguments and the other party’s views. He definitely enables the parties to reach agreements where possible’. Mediating over 1000 disputes to date, Mackie’s recent appointments include disputes over business and human rights, as well as commercial, engineering, energy, employee, property and shareholder disputes. His other areas of mediation expertise cover family businesses, insurance, insolvency, property, media, and banking and finance. Mackie additionally frequently mediates complex cases in Europe, ranging from class actions and multi-party disputes to regulatory matters.