The ‘fantastic’ mediation team at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP handles both financial and children-related mediations. ‘Exceptional mediator’ Sarah Anticoni is ’multi-talented and gently forthright with clients‘, with experience in advising on the dissolution of religious as well as civil marriages, including those with international elements. In Guildford, Shona Alexander specialises in high-net-worth financial cases, with expertise regarding the unmarried family, cohabitation, and Schedule 1 cases. Department head William Longrigg is a trained family arbitrator, adding to the team’s comprehensive non-court dispute resolution offering, which includes a number of team members trained in the collaborative process.
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‘Sarah Anticoni is one of the best mediators in London. She has so much experience and has all the inter-personal skills needed to help clients reach an agreement.’
‘Sarah Anticoni is one of the leading family mediators in London and always in our top recommended family mediators for HNW and UHNW couples. She carries huge gravitas, and has years of experience which she uses to benefit her mediation clients and encourage them to find solutions.’
‘CRS have a fantastic team. They are well regarded and well liked in the industry. They are good at strength in depth and particularly good at having a range of styles and approaches so that you can refer clients to the right person and find somebody who is going to be sympathetic with them.’
‘Sarah Anticoni is an exceptional mediator; a head and shoulders above all other practitioners in London. She is incredibly efficient and adept at getting to the nub of issues swiftly. She has presence and people listen to her and take her very wise counsel.'
‘Sarah Anticoni is empathetic but pragmatic. She is terrific at appropriately focusing minds on the real issues and seeing the woods for the trees.’
‘Sarah Anticoni is right up there in the top mediators in London; multi-talented and gently forthright with clients to help steer them in the right direction to conclude their matters well away from the court eye.’
‘Sarah Anticoni is an excellent mediator. She is highly experienced, empathetic but firm, and keeps control of the room, whilst at the same time facilitating proper discussion between the clients. If I had a choice, I would send all my mediations to her, whether they be children or money disputes.’
‘Sarah Anticoni is, in my view, the most experienced and best mediator in the market presently.’
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