Business Dispute Mediation

Resolve business disputes without unnecessary cost and disruption

Business disagreements can absorb management time, damage commercial relationships and become increasingly expensive if they are allowed to escalate.

Mediation provides business owners and other commercial parties with a confidential environment in which to discuss the problem, identify what really matters and explore whether a commercially sensible agreement can be reached.

What business disputes can be mediated?

Mediation can help with a wide range of business and commercial disputes, including:

  • Disagreements between business owners
  • Shareholder disputes
  • Director disputes
  • Partnership disputes
  • Family business disagreements
  • Contractual disputes
  • Debt and payment disputes
  • Unpaid invoices
  • Customer disputes
  • Supplier disputes
  • Disagreements over the operation, ownership or future of a business

Whether the disagreement involves a substantial commercial claim or an unpaid debt where the cost of litigation may be disproportionate, mediation can provide a practical alternative to prolonged legal correspondence or court proceedings.

How can mediation help?

A court can determine the parties’ legal rights, but that is not always the same as finding the best commercial solution.

Mediation allows the parties to explore more flexible outcomes, including payment arrangements, changes to existing commercial arrangements or an agreed way for the parties to end or continue their business relationship.

The process is confidential and the parties remain in control. The mediator does not impose a decision: any settlement is reached by agreement.

Talk to us about your business dispute

If you are involved in a business disagreement, payment problem or commercial dispute and would like to explore whether mediation could help, contact us for an initial discussion.

I would like to thank you for the time you have spent in achieving in 4 hours, what we never achieved in 4 months. I think it is by far a much better process than solicitors and court.

I honestly feel that we now have a good chance of proceeding in an amicable way that hopefully in time will become a friendship with the children at its core. I do not think we would have achieved this through solicitors, and feel huge gratitude for your patience and gentleness.

It’s so much better to go through this process together in a calm and neutral setting, rather than being defensive at home or seeing a solicitor individually. You’ve been a great adviser on a tricky topic and the meetings were really productive.

Throughout this whole horrible process we have both felt that the system is designed to leave us hating each other and to have had your support in helping us get to this point has meant a great deal, so thank you for your support of us both and for reflecting everything so well.

Thank you for all you have done to make a very sad and painful process somewhat less painful!

Thanks for all your help. We are talking a lot more and generally getting on much better, we even stood next to each other at rugby AND are going to parents’ evening together!

You did more in 4 hours than our lawyers had done in 1 year. For that I am very grateful.

If you would like to talk through your options or discuss the mediation process, call us on 01892 506906 or fill in the form below.

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