Consensus Mediation: Enterprising Dispute Resolution                82 King Street Manchester M2 4WQ               Regent's Place 338 Euston Road London NW1 3BT

Nicholas Pryor is one of Britain's most experienced commercial mediators. For the last 12 years, he has been consistently recommended as a mediator and ranked in the highest categories in ‘Chambers' Guide to the Legal Profession’ and ‘The Legal 500’.  He is noted for his commercial approach, his skill in resolving complex disputes and his ability to relate effectively with parties.

Nick Pryor has been mediating since 1986, and has mediated disputes in Britain, the USA, Europe and the Far East.  He was involved with the foundation of the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR), and received CEDR accreditation in 1992.  He was a founder member of CEDR's Training Faculty from 1991 and a non-executive director of CEDR from 1995 to 1998.  He is a member of the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution (New York) and has written and lectured widely on mediation, and on techniques for representing clients in mediation.

He has to date successfully mediated more than 800 commercial disputes, including those referred to mediation by both the English and US Courts.  These have included a wide variety of commercial and contractual matters such as banking and financial regulation, construction, computer and IT, copyright, shipping and aviation, defamation, employment, oil and gas, arts, television and the media, venture capital and project finance, pension funds, insolvency, commercial property, shareholders' disputes, sports, telecommunications, professional negligence, Lloyd's insurance market disputes involving both marine and non-marine insurance and reinsurance matters, and disputes involving Government, Local Government and other public authorities and bodies.

He has extensive experience of successful mediation of disputes involving multiple parties, complex areas of fact or law and high value claims.

He is a solicitor, with experience in private practice as a commercial litigation solicitor in the City of London and as head of the UK Legal Department for a group of Lloyd's market reinsurance companies.  He now practices solely as an independent commercial mediator and arbitrator.

After being called to the Bar in 1970, he spent a period of postgraduate study at the London School of Economics.  In 1981, he qualified as a solicitor, and worked with Rowe & Maw, and from 1983 to 1990 as a senior assistant with Coward Chance (later Clifford Chance).  From 1990 to 1995 he was a partner with Manches.

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