Richard Nolan

Richard has been a partner in the commercial team and head of commercial dispute resolution nationally at Hempsons since 2008. Hempsons is a leading law firm for the health and social care, life sciences, charity and social enterprise sectors and helps clients overcome a constantly evolving list of challenges.

Richard’s practice comprises a broad mix of non contentious and contentious commercial law and dispute resolution. The public sector work undertaken in this area is often of high value, complex and attract public interest. He has c. 10 years experience of providing advice to public bodies, companies, charities and social enterprises engaged in the Health Sector on non contentious and contentious issues, including major projects.

Richard qualified as a solicitor at a leading banking and international law firm in the City in 1992 and has more than 25 years experience of commercial dispute resolution, including in-house experience on secondment at Royal Life Holdings and NatWest respectively. On qualification he moved to Yorkshire to join a national law firm, and from 2001 onwards has been a partner at leading regional and national law firms.

Richard was accredited as a mediator with ADR Group in the early 1990s, and qualified as a CEDR accredited mediator in early 2017. He has been involved in 100+ commercial mediations, primarily as legal representative, on a broad range of disputes with values as high as £550,000,000. These have included structurally large and legally complex mediations acting for associations comprising 100+ claimant commercial provider organisations in dispute with public sector commissioners of health and social care services.