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Fiona Colquhoun attracts praise from market sources for her experience and gravitas in mediation, with one source enthusing: “She is energetic, personable, and builds rapport quickly with the client. She also has good emotional intelligence and is very commercial.”
Chambers & Partners Guide 2016 (Ranked as Band 2)

Fiona Colquhoun receives acclaim for her work in tense disputes, with one interviewee commenting: “She immediately recognised that the emotions involved would be the key issue in the mediation, and she tailored her approach and very quickly won my client’s trust.” Colquhoun’s areas of expertise include NHS, partnership disputes, employment and property mediations
Chambers & Partners Guide 2015

With “excellent interpersonal skills,” Colquhoun “cuts through people’s bias to address the crux of the matter at hand” and is “absolutely committed to reaching a conclusion.”
Chambers and Partners Guide 2014

Client Feedback

  • “Challenged the parties- She is top of our list for any further mediations.”
  • “Without your patience and understanding we would certainly be on the way to Court- the settlement enables us to try and move on with our lives”
  • “Fiona put her heart and soul into the mediation- well beyond the call of duty.”
  • “Excellent, very impressive. We would happily use Fiona’s services again.”
  • “She has the art of keeping mediation going when people would want to walk away.”
  • “Liked her style, sensitivity and good humour.”
  • “Intellectually capable, got to the heart of the issues quickly.”
  • “Able to process what was going on and problem solve in ‘real time’.”
  • “Managed to rally the parties to converse, everyone was very shy in coming forward.”
  • “Exemplary and completely impartial.”
  • “Very commercial and professional, but also creative and intuitive.”
  • “Calm and balanced with staying power, energy and well able to deal with the unexpected.”
  • “Very sensitive to the difficult personalities involved, and understood the issues.”
  • “Stayed with this throughout – her follow up was sincere and very helpful.”
  • “Fiona had an impossibly difficult task, their lawyers were just incredibly difficult – they the most phenomenally difficult people I’ve ever come across, but it concluded happily.”