International Business Mediation

Mediation and legal recourse cannot replace one another. The two institutions are consecutive, respective to a situation’s escalation level. In a situation of conflict there are (usually) at least two opposing parties. Imagine these parties are countries. Depending on the escalation level, the options are diplomacy and war. A neutral third party intervention is diplomatic mediation. Only if diplomacy fails and the escalation increases may one resort to war as the ultima ratio option. Mediation is diplomacy. Legal action is war (your lawyers being the generals calling for action). It will result in destruction and loss for every party involved. Even if you win the case, you will have lost a business partner (i.e. future business) or a valuable colleague (i.e. knowledge, networks and perhaps equity) as well as considerable personal resources (further equity, time, and nerves).

Only go to battle in court if mediation has terminally failed. This advice is given to you by the warfare genius General Sun Tzu. For two and a half millennia, expert strategists have followed his fundamental principles. Those who didn’t eventually failed. Be smarter. I combine interdisciplinary academic and cross-section professional expertise with state of the art mediation methods. Thus I guide you through the process of understanding the conflict and its inherent factors, devising your best solutions, and implementing them in a fashion which allows you to emerge and progress with strength on a positive trajectory.