Explore mediation for civil disputes, arbitration for matters requiring a decision, and advisory support for business transactions.
A neutral guides the conversation, helps parties examine the issues, and explores possible terms. The parties decide whether to settle.
For parties and counsel seeking a structured setting to discuss an existing dispute.
Discuss fit, timing, participation, and fees before a session is confirmed.
02 / ARBITRATION
An arbitrator hears the parties’ positions and evidence and issues a decision under the applicable agreement and rules.
For matters where arbitration is agreed or required, subject to the relevant terms and procedures.
Share the type of matter so the team can discuss scope, availability, and the applicable process.
Advisory support for negotiation strategy, transaction structure, and complex commercial relationships. This is a separate engagement from serving as an impartial neutral.
For founders, companies, and deal participants evaluating a transaction or negotiation.
Discuss the proposed engagement, team, scope, and fees before work begins.
Commercial disputes often involve more than the wording of an agreement. Unpaid invoices, differing expectations, partnership disagreements, and disrupted working relationships can all affect the way forward.
Mediation provides a structured setting to examine disputed obligations, discuss the practical impact on the business, and explore terms the parties can evaluate. Matters may involve contract performance, payments, ownership interests, or partnership transitions.
Creative work brings together talent, producers, managers, financiers, and distributors whose interests may change over the life of a project. Disagreements can involve compensation, credits, royalties, licensing, rights, or the interpretation of a deal.
Our neutrals bring legal and commercial backgrounds in entertainment and media. Mediation creates space to discuss both the disputed terms and the working relationships involved, while exploring options for moving forward.
Property disputes may arise from purchases, ownership arrangements, boundaries, access, use, or obligations connected to a transaction. Financial interests and ongoing relationships can make these disagreements difficult to untangle.
A mediation session allows the parties and counsel to identify the issues, review their different perspectives, and explore practical terms. Depending on the matter, discussions may address payments, performance, future use, or a negotiated transition.
Motor vehicle accidents and other injury-related disputes can involve disagreements about responsibility, damages, medical expenses, and the impact of an injury. Parties, counsel, and insurers may assess the same information differently.
Mediation offers a setting to discuss those differences, consider litigation uncertainty, and evaluate settlement proposals. The parties remain responsible for deciding whether proposed terms are acceptable; no outcome is guaranteed.
Residential and commercial lease disputes may concern rent, repairs, lease obligations, possession, property conditions, or the end of a tenancy. The parties may need to address immediate concerns alongside the terms of their ongoing relationship.
Mediation can help landlords, tenants, and counsel clarify the disputed issues and explore workable arrangements. Discussions may include payment terms, responsibilities, timelines, or negotiated transitions, depending on the matter and applicable requirements.
Tell us the type of dispute and your preferred timing. Our team will discuss fit and next steps.
In mediation, a neutral helps the parties reach their own voluntary agreement, and nothing is imposed on anyone. In arbitration, a neutral arbitrator hears the matter and issues a binding, enforceable decision. Mediation preserves control and relationships; arbitration delivers a final ruling in private.
Most matters are scheduled as a focused half day or full day. Whether a matter needs a half or full day generally depends on its value and complexity, and we recommend the right format when you submit it.
Yes. Most matters are heard via Zoom, which is faster to schedule and lowers cost for everyone involved. When a matter calls for an in-person session, we travel to make it happen.
Yes. We take matters from around the world. Our neutrals work from and travel across Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Dubai, Mexico City, San Jose, Costa Rica, and Medellin, among other places.
Entertainment, media, music, sports, technology, and the broader creator economy, along with complex business and commercial matters involving founders, partners, companies, boards, and investors.
Mediation and arbitration resolve existing disputes. Deal consultation is advisory work that happens around a transaction: board and M&A advisory, structuring, and negotiation strategy to get high-value deals done well, ideally before a dispute ever arises.
Fees scale with the value and complexity of the matter. Tell us what is at issue and we will propose a format and a fee that fit.
Tell us the type of matter and your preferred timing. We’ll discuss fit, availability, and what comes next.
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