Over 30 years mediation experience from an award winning expert

Andrew Goodman

After 44 years in private practice at the Bar, Andrew Goodman now offers his services as a full-time independent commercial Mediator, Mediation Advocate, Dispute Consultant, Trainer and Author.

He has been an accredited CEDR mediator since 1993, helping parties to resolve more than 300 claims, from purely nominal amounts to hundreds of millions of US$, in the UK, UAE, Hong Kong, Egypt, Kuwait, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Singapore in commercial, construction, property and business development, partnership, franchising, professional indemnity, higher education and family business disputes.

Andrew is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading specialist mediation and advocacy trainers, working with the Bar Council, RICS, ICAEW, CIArb, HMRC, the International Advocacy Training Council, FIRS (Nigeria), PracticeForte (Singapore), MoJ (Turkey), IIAM (Delhi), APCAM (Asia-Pacific) and in many more jurisdictions.

He also regularly lectures and consults on international contract management to oil/gas, construction, procurement and service industry managers throughout MENA, the GCC and Southeast Asia with a view to conflict prevention. He has provided training in mediation at the ICC, Paris, the High Council of Justice, Brussels and for Hong Kong, Delhi, Bangkok, Singapore, Cape (RSA), Kathmandu, Istanbul, Ankara, Krakow, Prague and Lagos Bars and others, and addressed the Dutch, Belgian, French, Croatian, Nepalese, Nigerian, Turkish and Chinese judiciaries.

Andrew is the author of c.50 books including Effective Mediation Advocacy, Advanced Mediation Advocacy, How Judges Decide Cases and Effective Written Advocacy in Practice. He offers bespoke in-house advanced training in specialist, written and appellate advocacy, mediation representation/advocacy, contract management and dispute avoidance.