Rebecca Attree

Practice Areas

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.

Career

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.

Professional Memberships

1989 – Law Society

1992 – Worshipful Company of World Traders

1994 – Liveryman of the City of London

1995 – Libralex EEIG International Lawyers’ Group Honorary Member

2009 – ADRg Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator

2010 – CMC Registered Mediator

2011 – US Qualified Mediator (INADR) (prize winning student)

2013 – ADRg Accredited Online Civil and Commercial Mediator

2013 to 2017 – Member by Experience, Law Society Civil and Commercial Mediators Panel

2015 – Approved ADR Provider for the Gambling Commission

2018 – ADRg Accredited Workplace Mediator

2019 – Approved ADR Provider for the Property Ombudsman Scheme

2020 – Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Italy

2021 – Fellow of the CMC

Publications

• Libralex Alternative Dispute Resolution – A brief International Guide. Editor 2023

• International Commercial Agreements. (Thorogood, 2002)

• European Product Liabilities. Editor 1st and 2nd Editions. (Butterworths,1992 and 1996)

• European Economic Interest Groupings – Commercial, legal and tax considerations. (Jordans, 1990)

Personal

Rebecca enjoys travel, fitness classes, theatre and spending time with her husband and (now grown up) children.

Clients

Multi-nationals, public bodies, SME’s, charities.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

UK, Italy, France, US, Cayman Islands (Member of the Panel of Mediators at Cayman Islands Mediation and Arbitration Centre “CI-MAC’) .

Languages Spoken

Fluent Italian; good French.

Experience

Rebecca has mediated 100’s of cases since she qualified in 2009. She is a full time mediator, mediating regularly a wide range of cases.

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.

Education