Chris Cox

Chris's areas of expertise are commercial and company law partnerships and shareholders, banking and lending security, property law, insurance law, construction law and construction contracts, different forms of dispute resolution processes. 

• Banking
• Insolvency
• Construction
• Insurance
• Legal Costs
• Professional Partnerships
• General Commercial Shareholders

Chris is privately educated with a BA Joint Honours Degree in American Studies and Law from Keele University and Part II Law exams at The College of Law from The Law Society.

He spent two years as an articled clerk, becoming a solicitor in 1982. He trained with three provisional law firms dealing with private client work and then in the City of London as an assistant solicitor dealing with banking, insolvency, construction, and professional indemnity disputes.

Chris became an accredited mediator in 1998 following training with CEDR and obtained a Certificate in Advance Negotiation with CEDR in 2012. He became an equity partner in a leading law firm specialising in banking and insolvency dispute litigation in 1992 before broadening my knowledge with a master’s degree in construction law and arbitration in 2001. He trained as a mediator with CEDR in 1998 with further mentoring given by leading mediators who he observed or assisted including a mediation for a service provider based in the USA.

Chris helped found the Association of Midland Mediators. Since, he has conducted over fifty mediations, three as co-mediator and as a solicitor represented clients at mediation. He is Fellow of the Civil Mediation Council and was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators for Mediation. Chris was for three years an investigator into claims or complaints made against mediators.

He has a wide and continuing experience of the legal profession and the law having worked up to become an equity partner in a leading law firm, working in-house and latterly running a law practice specialising in all manner of commercial claims to achieve negotiated settlements. Chris is currently a senior solicitor consultant in a property law firm specialising in commercial construction, insurance claims and residential and building safety law.

Independent of his legal employment, Chris is a self-employed commercial mediator covering all areas of commercial law.

• The Law Society
• The Civil Mediation Council