Maxwell Mediators is founded by Lim Tat, Bill Wood and Geoff Sharp to meet the growing demand in Singapore for seasoned mediators with international experience.With our three experienced mediators, each independently ranked as a leading mediator intheir home jurisdiction and drawn from Asia, Europe and Australasia, Maxwell Mediators is perfectly placed to resolve cross border disputes in South East Asia and beyond.We specialise in co-mediating complex multi-jurisdictional/cross-border disputes, often involving more than one language. Lim Tat and Geoff Sharp recently co-mediated a crossborder dispute between English and Mandarin speakers.“The combination of Geoff and Tat’s superb mediation skills and Tat’s Chinese language skills ultimately resulted in a satisfactory settlement which allowed the [English/Chinese speaking] parties to put a long running and costly dispute behind them and move forward as commercial partners” Chris Griggs, BarristerMaxwell Mediators has a broad range of proven current experience across diverse areas of conflict. Our mediators work in the UK, NZ, USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, UAE and other countries involving a range of subject matter.Maxwell Mediators provides a refreshingly efficient and streamlined mediation process forcomplex disputes. There is no secretariat between parties and the mediator nor anyadditional administration fees. Founding mediators, Geoff, Bill and Tat are personally contactable and are the point of reference throughout the process.Our Singapore office is located in the heart of the business district at Maxwell Chambers Suites adjoining Maxwell Chambers, Singapore’s preferred mediation venue. This provides a convenient and secure venue for parties, counsel and mediators.

Full time Brick Court mediators, Tony Willis, Bill Wood, Geoff Sharp and Stephen Ruttle are among the 10 most highly regarded commercial mediators in the world and they all feature in the top 10 at different times.Brick Court mediators are regularly included Who’s Who Mediation list of ten Thought Leaders, making Brick Court home to four of the ten globally identified mediation leaders. WWL says; these four had “obtained the highest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel and other market sources in our most recent research cycle” and were “worthy of special mention owing not only to their vast expertise and experience advising on some of the world’s most significant and cutting-edge legal matters, but also their ability to innovate, inspire, and go above and beyond to deliver for their clients”.In addition to conducting mediations in London, our mediators often work elsewhere in the UK. They have also taken assignments in Europe, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Africa, Dubai, Romania, Greece, Ireland, Belgium, Mexico, Jersey and Guernsey.

Clifton Chambers is a set of experienced barristers, all from significant national law firms or senior roles in the Crown Law Office. Each brings a set of specialist skills in diverse areas of the law to the provision of advocacy, mediation and advisory services for government and for business.The barristers at Clifton Chambers share a common set of principles. They deliver advanced advocacy, mediation and advisory services to the highest level, are results-driven and user-friendly.

Litigation Partner, Wellington Litigation Unit Head 1996/1998