Andrew Mackenzie

BEng(Hons), MIET, CPA, EPA; West Midlands

Andrew Mackenzie is an experienced civil and commercial mediator with a strong technical and legal background. He has over 30 years’ professional experience working with complex disputes involving technology, engineering, automotive, and business matters.

Andrew is a Registered Civil & Commercial Mediator with the UK Civil Mediation Council and an Accredited Neutral at the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC) of the Unified Patent Court. He is also a Chartered UK and European Patent Attorney and a partner at Cleveland Scott York LLP, where he has extensive experience in contentious intellectual property and commercial disputes.

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Profession

Patent Attorney

Local Panel

West Midlands

Specialist Panel

Information Technology

Membership Level

Junior

Andrew's early career as a design engineer in the automotive and space sectors gives him the ability to quickly understand technically complex issues, enabling parties to focus on resolution rather than explanation. Andrew is known for his calm, pragmatic approach and for keeping mediations commercially focused and constructive.

Andrew offers mediation services nationwide across the UK, both in person and online, and works with parties to achieve durable, practical outcomes that reflect their commercial realities and future relationships.

Andrew's Experience

Areas of Expertise

Software
Electronics
Engineering
Telecoms
Automotive
Classic Cars
Partnership Disputes
Shareholder Disputes
Motor Trade

Mediation Style

Andrew applies a process known as facilitative mediation. Mediators who use this approach do not evaluate the rights and wrongs of the case or direct the parties to a particular settlement (so-called “evaluative mediation”), but rather they facilitate the conversation and guide the participants towards an outcome of their own.

Facilitative mediators ensure that every participant has the opportunity to express themselves, and will work with each party to explore all the issues in dispute. Whilst Andrew may help parties reality-test a position and help parties think about what happens next if mediation does not settle, he will not evaluate the strengths of a particular argument or seek to impose a solution, or the solution of the other party. Throughout the process, the participants themselves remain in control of what is discussed and how the conflict will be resolved. The mediator’s sole interest is helping the participants to find their own resolution to their dispute.

Professional Background

Andrew has an engineering degree, is highly numerate and readily understands complex technology. He has started, grown and sold businesses and operated in Managing Director, Managing Partner and Chair roles.

Andrew is comfortable reading legal, technical and financial documents. He initially worked as an engineer in the space and automotive industries. He then gained legal qualifications to become a Chartered UK Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney and continues to practice as a partner at Cleveland Scott York LLP in the engineering and software/electronics sectors.

Memberships & Advisory

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology
Member, Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office
CMC Registered Mediator
Authorised Representative at the Unified Patent Court (UPC)