IPOS Spotlight: Beverley Vara
Beverley recently joined the IPOS panel and has been a full-time mediator since 2013, previously working as a partner in Allen & Overy LLP, where she was head of Real Estate Litigation. She has been listed as a leading mediator in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 for mediation work for a n...
This month we are delighted to turn the spotlight on Beverley Vara.
Beverley recently joined the IPOS panel and has been a full-time mediator since 2013, previously working as a partner in Allen & Overy LLP, where she was head of Real Estate Litigation. She has been listed as a leading mediator in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 for mediation work for a number of years. She regularly gives seminars on mediation and is a coach and assessor on CEDR Mediation Training programmes.
Beverley is regularly appointed in large commercial disputes, often those with a real estate angle (including construction and planning) and often where one or more parties are from outside the UK. She also mediates all types of commercial and private client disputes, including Banking and Finance, Commercial contracts, corporate sales / Shareholder disputes / Joint venture disputes, Partnerships, Insolvency, PFI, Trusts and Professional Negligence.
“Your performance was excellent. One of the best that I have seen from a mediator in the past 30 years of acting in mediations”.Beverley believes that it is important for a mediator to adjust their style and approach to reflect the needs for the parties to the dispute and the circumstances of each individual case. She works with solicitors representing parties in advance of the mediation day to better understand their client’s needs and the approach to take to best assist the parties in making a success of the mediation day.
The feedback she receives from solicitors representing parties in her mediations reflects her approach to mediation, as they, and their clients, appreciate her straight talking, practical approach and her ability to mix a rigorous legal analysis of the case with empathy to help the parties find a solution that works for all of them.
“Thank you for your apparently limitless supply of patience and your assistance with getting us to a resolution.”Beverley is also currently working with the Anglican Diocese of Southwark to set up a pro bono mediation service to assist Parishes where disputes arise.
More feedback for Beverley can be seen below, and reflects her skill as a mediator:
“Thank you, Beverley, sincerely, for all your help and guidance. We would not have got there without you.”“Thank you, Beverley, and for doing another excellent job for us in such tough circumstances.”
“It was a real pleasure to work with you and your skilful handling of the mediation was a masterclass.”
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