Bill Wood is a leading international mediator based in London. He was the 2018 Mediation Lawyer of the Year and is the ADR representative on the Civil Justice Council (England and Wales). Bill was educated at Oxford and Harvard before going to the London Bar in 1980. He became a QC in 1998 and spent over 30 years as a commercial litigator. He is based at leading London set Brick Court Chambers. He began to mediate in 1999 and now practises as a full-time commercial mediator, handling some 80 cases each year, many of them in overseas jurisdictions. He mediates a wide range of large-scale commercial disputes centred on banking, financial services, oil and gas, and insurance, as well as professional negligence, construction and engineering, IT, competition and regulation, employment and discrimination, human rights, intellectual property, and planning disputes. He has mediated in Hong Kong, Paris, Geneva, Barcelona, Dubai, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Mexico, Singapore and New York.
He is a member of the faculty of the mediatoracademy.com and writes on mediation matters for The Lawyer, Counsel, Insurance, Day and The Mediator Magazine, as well as lecturing and consulting on mediation matters. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Mediators. He sits as an arbitrator and arbitrates (and mediates) for the ICC.
