Henry Brown, admitted as an attorney
in South Africa (1962) and a solicitor in England (1975), is a consultant with
the long-established City of London law firm, Penningtons, where he was
formerly a partner. His main practice has been in the field of partnership,
intellectual property, and commercial litigation and arbitration (including
commodity and construction disputes). He has acted extensively in matters
involving relationship breakdown (business, corporate, professional, family and
personal).
He is an experienced mediator,
having originally trained in New York in 1985. He mediates across a wide range
of commercial, contractual and civil disputes including intellectual property
(particularly copyright, trade mark and passing off issues); partnership,
commercial agency and shareholder disputes; and professional negligence.
Henry Brown was on the original
training faculty of CEDR (the Centre for Dispute Resolution), London, and has
co-run mediation training courses and workshops extensively in the UK and South
Africa, for the construction industry in Hong Kong and for lawyers in Denmark.
He is the author of the Law Society of England & Wales’ Report on
Civil and Commercial ADR (1991) and co-author with Arthur Marriott, QC of
ADR Principles and Practice (1993 and 2nd edition, 1999). He
was mediation consultant to the City Disputes Panel (concerning major financial
disputes in the City of London) on its establishment.
Accredited by CEDR since its
inception and a registered mediator there, he is also a member of the Panel of
Independent Mediators and the Chartered Institute of Dispute Resolution (New
York). He was Director of Mediation of the Solicitors Family Law Association.
He holds a Certificate in the Fundamentals of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
