Art and Cultural Property Mediation Services

Richard Clark

Mediation

Richard Clark is a leading dispute resolution lawyer with over 30 years’ experience in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation. He was formerly Head of Dispute Resolution at Slaughter and May.

Richard is a top ranked commercial mediator who regularly mediates a wide spectrum of commercial disputes including contract, employment, professional services, inheritance, real estate, insurance, financial services, investment and asset management disputes. He also has a particular speciality in art and cultural property disputes.

Richard is experienced both in conventional, in-person mediations and also in conducting online mediations including multi-party and multi-locational disputes.

Richard is a CEDR accredited mediator and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, as well as an Accredited Mediator at the Court of Arbitration for Art and a member of Art Resolve, PAIAM, the Centre for Art Law and the Institute of Art and Law. He is also non-executive chair of the College of Legal Practice.

Client Comments

“It was a pleasure to meet you yesterday and on behalf of the entire claimants’ team, I can only thank you for your exceptional and skilled mediation. With over 20 participants and polarised positions, I am frankly amazed that a full settlement was achieved. Without your calm and insightful role, as well as your clear and in depth knowledge of the art market, this case would be heading towards trial. I would not hesitate to recommend you and I hope we meet again.”

(London KC, 2023)

Client Comments

“The clients are delighted and we are all deeply grateful to you for managing the whole process so well. Without your professionalism and patience, I doubt this difficult and highly technical dispute would have settled at all.””

(Partner, London law firm, 2023)

Client Comments

“Many thanks for your brilliant achievement yesterday in bringing this bitter and acrimonious dispute to such a smooth and satisfactory conclusion. This is by far the best experience I have yet had in any mediation and I would not hesitate to recommend you and I am sure our paths will meet again soon.”

(Partner, London law firm, 2021)

Client Comments

“My clients and I are delighted that this complex and long-running dispute settled at the mediation you so skilfully and elegantly presided over. In addition to your endless patience, diplomacy and ability to bring the parties together, we were all incredibly impressed by your in-depth knowledge of the insurance and art markets which was such a great help to us all”

(Partner, London law firm, 2021)

Client Comments

“Richard did a superb job. To my amazement, he quickly managed to encourage the parties to engage in a way that none of us had thought possible and we made so much progress in the morning session which enabled us to achieve an amicable settlement by at 6.30pm. He had a gentle authority and agility as well as a complete knowledge of the facts and legal issues.”

(Partner, City law firm, 2020)

Richard Clark is a senior, CEDR accredited mediator with over 30 years’ experience as a commercial dispute resolution lawyer.

He was formerly Head of Dispute Resolution and Executive Managing Partner at Slaughter and May. His commercial dispute resolution practice at Slaughter and May included financial institutions, insurance, pensions, international trade and real estate as well as art and cultural property.

Richard was ranked as one of only three Eminent Practitioners in London for dispute resolution and acted for major international, financial, corporate and individual clients, governments, trustees, museums and galleries.

Richard is an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford and a member of the Commercial Law Centre at the University of Oxford. He is also Non-Executive Chair of the College of Legal Practice.

Richard has been involved in numerous commercial mediations and has assisted many corporations, organisations and individuals to resolve their disputes and avoid the costs, stress and time of formal litigation.

RICHARD CLARK