""Suited
to sophisticated clients and not afraid to challenge
them"
"Marvellously thorough, understated
and fair"
"Decidedly proactive"
"Calm
and contained handling of matters of great complexity"
"Flexible
and patient"
"Coaxes parties into settlement
with guileless ease"
"An excellent mediator
who remains calm and communicates effectively with
both parties"
"Thoroughness, persistence,
and management skills"" Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession,
2001-07
Charles
Middleton-Smith has been a partner at Hammonds in London since 1991.
With over 25 years' experience in business dispute resolution, he
has enthusiastically emphasised and developed his practice as a mediator
since 1999.
Charles can be relied upon to deal with the inevitable
surprises of the mediation process with calmness, authority and optimism.
He actively seeks new learning on negotiation, gap closing strategies
and mediator options.
Given his lengthy commercial experience, Charles
continues to be appointed in a wide variety of business and legal
contexts, with sums involved ranging between £50,000 and £100,000,000.
Areas of particular experience include:
•
Media and entertainment
•
Sport
•
Intellectual property
•
Disputes with an international dimension (reflecting
his legal practice)
•
Agency and distribution contracts (especially
Commercial Agents’ Regulations)
•
Financial services
•
Corporate
and commercial contract cases
Charles describes his style as prioritising
the commercial aspects, the future and reality, momentum, humour,
courtesy and flexibility.
