Marianne Clark

• Commercial contracts
• Business disputes
• Consumer disputes
• Data and tech disputes
• Sale of goods
• Landlord and tenant (both commercial and residential)
• Boundary disputes
• Service charges
• Dilapidations
• Development disputes
• Neighbour disputes
• Joint ventures

Marianne approaches every mediation with thorough preparation and clear focus of the issues that must be worked through.

She analyses documents quickly and identifies the topics that need to be discussed at the mediation. She approaches the parties with empathy and emotional intelligence and ensure that each party has the opportunity to be fully heard and understood.

Marianne brings a positive energy to mediations. She is solution-driven and forward-thinking and keeps the parties moving towards a workable agreement. She will use robust reality-testing to help them evaluate their options.

For the first 10 years of her legal career, Marianne worked for global law firm K&L Gates in London in corporate real estate. She acted for lenders and borrowers, sellers and purchasers, landlords and tenants. This gave her a clear understanding of the commercial drivers on all sides of a property transaction. It also gave her the opportunity to hone my negotiation skills.

In 2015 Marianne took a job as in-house counsel at national retailer River Island. She is now Head of Legal at River Island and works 4 days a week which leaves her 1 day a week for mediation. Over the last 10 years she has developed an expertise in commercial leasing having managed the portfolio of over 200 stores in UK and Ireland. On a day-to-day basis Marianne also negotiates commercial contracts for the supply of goods and services as well as technology and data related agreements.

• Law Society of England and Wales
• Civil Mediation Council registered member
• International Mediation Institute
• Portsmouth Mediation Service (community mediator)