Five subject areas. One standard of preparation.

Contract and partnership disputes. Shareholder oppression and minority remedies. Post-closing indemnity, earn-out, and working-capital adjustments. Distribution, supply, and IP-licensing disputes. Insurance coverage and inter-carrier matters.

Litigation counsel, general counsel, in-house dispute teams, and principals retain me directly. Most engagements run as a single day of mediation. I stage larger multi-party matters across two or three sessions, with interim caucus calls between.

The deliverable is a signed term sheet on the day, with a long-form settlement agreement and mutual release drafted by counsel within the week.

I take engagements involving property division and support, parenting plans, prenuptial and cohabitation disputes, and high-asset separations with operating companies, trusts, real estate portfolios, or cross-border holdings.

Parties retain me jointly, or family-law counsel retain me cooperatively. Mediation typically proceeds as a series of two to three-hour sessions over four to eight weeks, with caucus and joint passes alternating as the matter requires.

Individual sessions are available. You are not required to attend with your former partner; where one side prefers to meet alone, the mediation runs as a shuttle with each party in a separate room.

The deliverable is a Memorandum of Understanding, drafted on the day or in the days following each session, that counsel convert into a separation agreement or consent order.

I take engagements involving will challenges, executor and trustee disputes, beneficiary deadlocks, family-business succession, and charitable-foundation governance.

Executors, trustees, estate counsel, and family-office advisors retain me. These engagements call for caucus-heavy work and a careful pace. The room often holds people who have spoken at one another’s weddings and at one another’s funerals.

I reduce settlement to a written agreement and, where probate is open, pair it with a consent court order to give the resolution finality.

Executive separations. Harassment, discrimination, and human-rights claims. Partnership and shareholder exits. Post-employment restrictive-covenant disputes. Senior departures requiring discreet handling.

General counsel, heads of people and culture, employment counsel, and plaintiff counsel retain me. Most matters resolve in a half- or full-day session. Where the employment relationship is to continue, I build a return-to-work or facilitated-conversation framework into the deliverable.

The deliverable is a separation agreement with mutual release, or, where appropriate, a confidential workplace resolution memorialised by the parties.

I take engagements involving shareholder and partnership deadlocks, charitable-board disputes, family-office and family-business governance, and confidential facilitation of difficult board conversations.

Board chairs, corporate secretaries, family-office principals, and counsel to closely-held businesses retain me. The work is often quieter than litigation and slower than a single mediation day. Some governance engagements run for a season, not an afternoon.

The deliverable varies: a governance MOU, an amended shareholder or unanimous shareholder agreement, a board-resolution package, or a facilitator’s report.