Member Profile

Michel Kallipetis QC is among the UK’s most sought-after mediators. He is regarded as an authority in mediation and commercial and civil litigation. With an apparently effortless blend of charm and authority, his style is versatile and effective.

Michel regularly mediates a wide variety of disputes including: partnerships; banking; insurance and re-insurance; all areas of employment disputes including racial and sex discrimination claims and pension rights; solicitors and valuers’ negligence claims; medical negligence and personal injuries claims; construction, engineering and commercial disputes with claims over several £100m including referrals from the Commercial Court and the Technology & Construction Court. He has also mediated a variety of land disputes involving rights of way and disputed boundaries. Many of the mediations have been multi party disputes and others have involved international companies and the laws of other countries. He has mediated for the ICC and the AAA.

He is conducting mediations by remote video in the current difficulties. He represented the IAM at UNCITRAL’s WGII drafting the Singapore Convention.

Banking / Finance

Commercial contracts

Commercial fraud / Fraud

Company shareholders

Competition

Construction and engineering

Defamation

Employment

Franchise

Group actions

Insolvency

I.T.

Insurance / reinsurance

Intellectual Property

International

Local and national government

Medical negligence / Personal injury

Oil and gas

Partnerships

Pensions

Probate / Trusts / Estates

Professional negligence

Property

Regulatory

Sport

Transport / logistics

HKIAC Accredited Mediator Panel

FCIArb

CIArb Mediation Fellow

Distinguished Fellow and the Vice President of the International Academy of Mediators

Singapore International Mediation Centre’s Panel of Mediators

Japan International Mediation Centre’s Panel of Mediators

Member of Sport Resolution (UK) panel

PIM Senior Mediator

CMC Registered Mediator

International Mediation Institute Certified Mediator