Jeremy Lack
Senior International Mediator
Jeremy is ranked by WHO’S WHO LEGAL as a national leader since 2010, as one of the ten most highly regarded mediators in 2011, as one of the most highly regarded firms in 2012 and 2013, and as a Global Elite Thought Leader from 2019-2025. He has mediated >500 complex international commercial disputes since first qualifying as a mediator in 1995, >95% of which settled.
Jeremy has a holistic approach to “Appropriate Dispute Resolution” (ADR) and provides a customised approach to mediation adapting each case to the parties’ cultural preferences and procedural needs and interests, taking into account 7 key drivers: costs, deadlines, relationships, control of process, control of outcome, confidentiality and enforceability. His preferred style is facilitative and transformative, although he can be evaluative and designs each case to include “mixed mode” techniques as may be appropriate in each case.
His industrial expertise spans the Life Sciences (biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics), family businesses and family offices, trusts and estates and IT. He has signed the Mediation Green Pledge, and is a certified online dispute resolution professional, used to working and resolving disputes online as well as in person. He applies a TRI-O/S approach to ADR, based on recent findings in brain and social sciences, which takes into consideration emotional, social and cognitive heuristics as well as cross-cultural and personal considerations.
You can see testimonials for Jeremy Lack here. Jeremy is also an IMI Certified Mediator and you may view his IMI user feedback digest here.
Key Practice Areas:
Commercial, Intercultural, International, Licensing, Patent, Technology
Working Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, Spanish
“My preferred style is facilitative and transformative, although I can be evaluative and design each case to include “mixed mode” techniques as may be appropriate in each case.“
- Certified Mediator, International Mediation Institute (IMI)
- Certified Mediation Advocate, International Mediation Institute (IMI)
- Graduate Diploma, Comparative Copyright Laws, King’s College London (2006 – 2007)
- Graduate Diploma, European Competition Law, King’s College London (1997 – 1998)
- English Barrister, Law (Middle Temple), Inns of Court School of Law (Sep 1988 – Sep 1989)
- MA (Oxon), Law & Physiological Sciences, Oxford University, Lincoln College (Sep 1984 – Jun 1988)