International Mediator Panel

Languages English Overview Professor Ryan Abbott, M.D., Esq., Solicitor Advocate, has mediated domestic and international disputes with collectively hundreds of millions of pounds at stake. His focus is on commercial mediations, and he has particular experience in the fields of intellectual property and health care, and offers unique expertise in such matters as biologics, pharmaceuticals, … Continued

Client Feedback: “Sevdalina was extremely helpful in keeping the focus on the important issues during the entire mediation. And when we were stuck, she just kept moving the discussion forward.” Languages Bulgarian, English Overview Sevdalina Aleksandrova is a mediator and lawyer with over 15 years experience, mostly in contractual disputes, commercial, real estate, and family … Continued

Languages Greek, English, French Overview Dr Ioanna Anastasopoulou is a lawyer and accredited mediator by CEDR and the Greek Ministry of Justice. She is one of the first accredited mediators and mediation trainers in Greece and has actively promoted alternative dispute resolution as a founding member and President of the Hellenic Mediation and Arbitration Centre. … Continued

Client Feedback: “She has an excellent disposition as well as grasp of the case’s facts and law. Humble and kind person whom the parties can trust.”

Client Feedback: “Federico approaches the mediation process keeping in mind the human side of it, no matter what is the nature of the issues at stake. He is capable of digging out opportunities that parties do not even dare to consider. He is honest, impartial and straightforward, always committed to balance the benefits for both … Continued

Client Feedback: “He is a mediator of choice in respect of his knowledge, patience, commitment and integrity” Language English Overview William Aylmer has been a practising mediator for ten years. He was one of the founding members of the CEDR Ireland Mediator Practice Group and he is a Certified Member of the Mediators’ institute of … Continued

Client feedback: “The mixture of her consolidated knowledge and experience of the business and international environment, her global perspective, business-oriented along with her insight make her a mediator with strategic vision, creativity and ability to help solve problems rigorously, albeit with flexibility, respect and consistency, connecting multicultural and diverse people and teams. A trusted mediator … Continued

Client feedback: “Balint listens and takes the time to understand both sides of the dispute. He is objective, fair and compassionate. These qualities and approach to mediation has allowed for an environment of trust where both parties to the conflict (with different power ranking) have been able to come together and work out a satisfactory … Continued

Roger Beresford acts in a wide range of company, financial and commercial litigation, including regulatory practice in securities, listed company representation and competition law matters. Prior to call to the Bar in Hong Kong, Roger was employed by Baker & McKenzie for 20 years (10 years in London and 10 years in Hong Kong), during … Continued

Client feedback: “It was easy to talk with Dorothée all along. She helped us, amongst other thing, to re-open the dialogue between our head of office, our new line manager and our 10 years experienced agent.  She helped us preserved the relationship, which in turn helped us  to take the right decision for all. Her … Continued

Client feedback: “Built good rapport.” “Felt taken care off and understood” and “very empathetic”. “Calm and very constructive approach.” “Managed the process actively and helped finding a settlement within hours – after alengthy nerve-wracking negotiation.” Languages German, English Overview Corina has a legal background and worked as a legal assistant and attorney before she decided … Continued

Jennifer is a solo practitioner specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution with prior extensive commercial and family law litigation experience. She is one of original court-appointed mediators for commercial, family and bankruptcy law cases in statewide mandatory mediation programs, Federal District Court mediator and Storm Sandy mediator through American Arbitration Association and arbitrator for … Continued

Client Feedback: “Martin got us talking again, this virtually saved our company.” – Eduard Zanen, Bugaboo International Languages Dutch, English Overview Martin has over the past 20 years developed a mediation practice in corporate and finance, mediating many disputes within and between companies, e.g. management and board disputes, joint venture conflicts, issues about warranties in … Continued

Languages German, English Overview Birgit is an experienced and highly competent conflict management trainer, facilitator and mediator with strong communication skills and a high level of empathy allowing her corporate clients to feel more comfortable and less stressed during the entire mediation process. She always keeps the settlement goal in view, while helping the parties … Continued

Client feedback: “Ursula has been very efficient in helping us to really go over all the details that have added to our mutual misunderstandings. I understood that we had two different stories, two different truths, and that we would not have had a chance to clarify who was “right” or “wrong”! Undoubtedly, we would never … Continued

Samuel Chat Chor Wong is a practising barrister at law in Hong Kong, a Chartered Arbitrator and accredited mediator with both CEDR and HKIAC. A founding member of the CEDR Asia Pacific Practice Group Mr Wong is also listed on the panels of many of the recognised mediator panels in Hong Kong including HKIAC, Hong … Continued

Mr Cheng is a Fellow member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (HKIArb) and Hong Kong Construction Arbitration Centre (HKCAC). He is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and on the List of the Mediators of Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited (HKMAAL), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), Hong … Continued

Client Feedback: “30 years of professional legal and commercial experience”

Client feedback: ‘’Soriana is the best mediator I know. Both me and my team learned a quite a few relevant points from her about solving issues and correctly evaluating the dynamics of divergence. Clearly, this area of mediation is to reshape the way organizations mitigate risk and solve matters…..!’’ Languages Romanian, English Overview Experience of … Continued

Languages Dutch, Flemmish, French, English Overview Helena De Backer is a practising Attorney and founder of DS De Backer and Bastin in Brussels, Belgium.  She has over 40 years’ experience as an arbitrator and lawyer and has been a commercial mediator since 1999.  She works on cross-border contract negotiation mostly related to mergers & acquisitions, … Continued

Client feedback: “The mediator has acted with high professionalism with a positive and constructive attitude, opening future perspectives.” Languages English, French, Spanish Overview Economist, MBA, Bank and insurance top management, Hugues has acted as a mediator for over ten years internationally and focuses today on mediation practice and teaching mediation and Negotiation Professional background Financial … Continued

Client feedback: “Mario Dotti is an excellent mediator. His ability to solve complicated cases is matched only by his courtesy and class”. Languages English, Italian Overview Mario is a full-time mediator and neutral, and began mediating in 2003. He specialises as a Commercial mediator, family mediator, Collaborative Practice professional, group facilitator, and arbitrator. Mario is … Continued

Client Feedback: “He understands his role but he is taking the initiative to handle the process when the parties are loosing the control about the items of the agenda.” Languages English, Russian, Romanian  Overview Frequently Victor handles cases when the producers of products delivered the goods abroad and the buyers use to generate gaps in … Continued

Client Feedback “Ms. Egsgard has tremendous skills with dealing with complicated parties and situations.” Languages English Overview Jennifer is a CEDR and Harvard-trained mediator and a Canadian-qualified lawyer with 20 years of diverse legal experience. Advocates who have used Jennifer as a mediator have said that she has “tremendous skills with dealing with complicated parties … Continued

John Gale is the founder and Managing Partner of J.S. Gale & Co. He was previously Managing Partner of Stephenson Harwood’s Hong Kong and China offices and has spent nearly 30 years in Hong Kong advising on a wide range of corporate, commercial and financial transactions centred in Hong Kong and Asia. John’s work includes … Continued

Client feedback: “Anne-Karin is a great observer, and able to cut straight to the heart of any dispute. When it comes to the effective management of dispute resolution processes, she is most resourceful. She is a skilled international commercial mediator.” Languages German, English Overview Anne-Karin teaches mediation at the University of Vienna’s Faculty of Law … Continued

Clive is experienced in criminal matters such as commercial crime, money-laundering, corruption and cases involving human rights issues. He has also experience in international criminal practice as he has advised Governments of several countries. Clive has also an established public law and civil practice as he has been involved in judicial reviews relating to right … Continued

A Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal and Chairman of both the Market Misconduct Tribunal and the Securities and Futures Appeal Tribunal, Michael Hartmann has had a long-standing interest in mediation. Mr Hartmann effectively introduced mediation into Hong Kong court proceedings in chairing the working group responsible for making mediation an integral part … Continued

Client Feedback: “… highly effective in taking the heat out of a dispute and creating an atmosphere conducive to settlement.”

Client feedback: “Karolina walked us through a difficult business dispute to a settlement taking into consideration our personal needs. It was far from easy but ultimately worth it – largely thanks to Karolina’s guidance.” Languages Polish, English Overview Karolina Jackowicz is a mediator focused on helping entrepreneurs (especially start-ups and small & medium enterprises – … Continued

Joanna has mediated or facilitated over 300 matters related to indigenous land claims, environmental matters, community involvement in public infrastructure projects, commercial, industrial and academic disputes. Since July 2013, Joanna has been principal facilitator in the pilot phase of the Defence Abuse Taskforce’s restorative engagement process (Australia) and has run briefing sessions for representatives of … Continued

Client Feedback: “She is excellent at understanding issues and bridging differences over them.”

Nigel Kat has been engaged in the process of helping parties resolve their disputes for over 30 years. A barrister in England and in Hong Kong since 1983, and a chartered arbitrator, he has wide experience of international, regional and domestic corporate and organisational disputes. Nigel was accredited by CEDR in 2009 and has focused … Continued

Client Feedback: “We were very pleased with the cool professionalism that Austin brought to this emotionally charged and bitter disagreement.”   Overview An independent mediator and business consultant with a strong accountancy and business background, Austin is also chairman and non-executive director of three companies. Austin also has experience in the property, manufacturing and retail … Continued

Client Feedback: “Raymond is very good at holding the participants’ attention…” “…enthusiastic.”

Client feedback: ‘’After the mediation process I was a part of, I believe that the Mediator and mediation process is indispensable for the parties to the conflict, even I, a sceptical person, was amazed by Mr Lefter’s mediation skills.’’ Languages Romanian, Russian, English Overview As leader of the Mediator Centre of the Chamber of Commerce … Continued

Alan has over 30 years of experience mediating commercial and intellectual property disputes of all kinds in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, in which parties are legally represented. He was described by Who’s Who Legal: Mediation 2018 as “one of the best mediators in the world”.  

Client feedback: “… I have been especially impressed with Mr. Lindbäck’s skill in appreciating both the intellectual challenge and the practical need to achieve a result.  …” Languages Finnish, Swedish, English Overview Since graduating from the University of Helsinki in Finland with a master’s degree in Law, Ralf Lindbäck has successfully followed a career specializing … Continued

Client feedback: “The mediator conducted the meetings with maturity, logic, process awareness and perseverance and guided us in finding solution to our problem. The mediator had a remarkable patience, respect and skill in helping us to investigate and consider every possibility and work together with other party to resolve long lasted issues. Our minds changed … Continued

Mr. Lutringer has mediated commercial disputes related to buy-sell agreements, acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, corporations, LLC’s, technology licensing, agency, distribution, franchising, loans, real estate (including commercial and residential brokerage and sale agreements), securities and corporate finance. In addition to commercial disputes, Mr. Lutringer has mediated disputes among members of family-owned and closely-held enterprises, (often referred … Continued

Client feedback: “Thanks again for today. I was and am impressed”.  (App message from counsel of the requesting party after recently concluding a one-day mediation between Swiss and Dutch parties over claims and counter claims pertaining to registered moveable property amounting to € 1,5 million and € 6 million, against the background of pending (summary) … Continued

Co-founder and Chairman of ENDISPUTE, Incorporated, the nation’s first provider of a full range of dispute resolution and management services. After merger of Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services and ENDISPUTE, in August 1994, Vice- Chairman of J.A.M.S/ENDISPUTE, and Chairman of the firm’s Executive Committee, which set professional practice policies for the firm’s nationwide panel of … Continued

Danny McFadden has been a Director of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) since 2004 and is the Managing Director of CEDR Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. with a particular expertise in cross-cultural and multinational disputes. He is the current Regional Mediator for the World Bank and United Nations in Asia. Danny speaks … Continued

Languages Italian, English Overview Corrado’s practice contains well over 1,200 cases many of which concern matters including property, delicate and complex contract disputes, highly valued international commercial disputes involving top-rank businesses, clinical/medical malpractice, IP, technology, defamation, among the others. Most cases he helped his clients to settle involve difficult negotiations, a plurality of stakes, multi-party … Continued

Languages English, French Overview Joachim is an experienced conflict management trainer, facilitator and mediator. His mediation practice contains a variety of cases, many of which concern unrepresented parties in dispute with a business or service provider. Joachim has studied mediation at masters’ level in all its applications, ranging from workplace conflicts to international commercial disputes, … Continued

Languages Dutch, English, German (written working knowledge), French (working knowledge) Professional Background 2020 – present:  Honorary Appeal Court Justice Court of Appeal, the Hague Netherlands (Civil and Commercial Chambers) 2009 – present: National and International mediator and arbitrator (Yearly average of 40 mediations and 5 arbitrations in corporate & commercial, maritime/transport, construction, international trade, distribution/agency, … Continued

Client Feedback: “If Gert cannot manage it, nobody can.” Languages English, French, Swedish Gert Nilsson Eldrimner is a commercial lawyer since 1991, based in Stockholm, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark. He has litigated a large number of commercial disputes and also been involved in arbitration, both as a party representative and arbitrator. Since his CEDR accreditation … Continued

Sara is a practising barrister, having been called to the Irish bar in July 1996, and she has practised continuously as a barrister since October 1996.  Sara “took silk”/was called to the inner bar in October 2013 and has significant expertise and experience across many areas of law including tort/personal injury law, crime, administrative law/judicial … Continued

Julia is a practicing Barrister in Hong Kong and a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. She specialises in personal injury, employees’ compensation, medical negligence and insurance disputes. Her vast experience in these areas of litigation has given her a deep insight into interpersonal relations and working culture in both the industrial and … Continued

Philip Punwar is a practising barrister and partner in the international arbitration and dispute resolution group of the law firm Baker Botts LLP. Based in Dubai Philip became a CEDR accredited mediator in 2010 and is now acting as a mediator in addition to his work as a lawyer and international arbitrator. He has recently … Continued

Client Feedback: “…thank you so much for having played such an integral part in the process of keeping us out of court.”

Client Feedback: “The dexterity with which you handled a very difficult situation which could have led to a damaged relationship is quite admirable and outstanding…”

Kim Rooney is a barrister who has been based in Hong Kong since 1990, after first practising in Australia. Before moving to the Bar in late 2009, she was a partner of White & Case LLP and head of its Hong Kong based international dispute resolution practice. Kim has more than 30 years experience covering … Continued

Client feedback: “I regret not having met Anna a couple of years ago. My business would have been in an entirely different place now.” Languages English, Polish (mother tongue), French, Spanish, Italian. Overview Anna is an active mediator, negotiator and facilitator with wide experience of the Polish and international market & business environment with areas … Continued

Languages English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Overview Since 1997, working mostly in mediation and participation in numerous national and international mediations as single mediator and co-mediator as well as counsel to parties in mediation, notably in complex multiparty International commercial cases (SPA, trading, contacts, etc.), joint-ventures, liquidation of commercial enterprises, construction issues, financial disputes, IP … Continued

Mr. Sarwana is a CEDR accredited mediator and faculty member of CEDR. He is vice-chair of the IBA Mediation Committee and co-chairs the Mediation Trainings Committee of the Pakistan Mediators’ Association. His law practice involves assisting clients and international associates on acquisitions, joint ventures and takeovers; corporate and commercial law; employment and labor; Power and … Continued

Client Feedback: Nicholas’s approach to mediating involves thorough preparation and the use of early briefings with the parties in order to ensure that full benefit can be made of the opportunity to commence the mediation process in the most efficient manner.

Client Feedback: “Also in the region is Geoff Sharp who is “the leading mediator in New Zealand” for many of our respondents. He enjoys an “exceptional reputation” all over the world…”

Client Feedback “Stephen is a brilliant mediator. He spent some days preparing and speaking to the parties separately before the mediation day, followed by intense and occasionally surreal negotiations on the day. His calm and attentive manner, as well as his ability to manage the parties’ expectations are exceptional.” Languages English Overview Stephen is an … Continued

Client Feedback: “… It was a pleasure to meet a person of such high profile and I think you played a decisive role in the success of the mediation. Your kind presence has meant that all of us we felt more comfortable and closer to understanding each other’s reasons…” Languages English, Croatian  Overview Srdan has facilitative … Continued

Client feedback: “Tania has an open, consultative style. She succeeds in motivating and fostering a high degree of cooperation. She is an inspiring and effective communicator able to build consensus and motivate across cultures at all levels, helped by having lived in a number of countries and fluently speaking six languages” Languages English, Italian, German, … Continued

Gary Soo is a practising Barrister and a Chartered Engineer and has been practising in areas of civil litigation involving commercial and construction disputes and arbitration. He also serves as arbitrator and mediator for various institutions in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Languages English, Polish Overview Ewelina Stobiecka is the Head of the Warsaw office of Taylor Wessing. She is also a certified commercial mediator in Poland and Germany, a mediator for DE International in Ukraine and the founder of the International Mediation Centre (IMC) in Poland’s international Chambers of Commerce. Ewelina specialises in dispute resolution. She … Continued

William works on cases across all aspects of commercial law with a particular focus on aviation, insurance, international trade, shipping (‘wet’ and ‘dry’) and regulatory matters in the financial and telecommunications industries”.

Client Feedback: Gordon is solutions-oriented and brings a unique understanding of cross-cultural issues to disputes or differences which may be adversely affecting organisations reaching successful commercial settlements and targets. 

Client Feedback “Well placed to understand the needs of business people.”   Languages English, German & Italian Overview Wolf is a leading internationally recognised independent arbitrator and mediator practising globally out of London, Washington D.C and Abu Dhabi. He has a broad range of experience in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and conflict management. He has been … Continued

Client feedback: “Mikael Wahlgren has, in co-partnership with United States Magistrate Judge James E. Gates, acted in the US as a Special Master under the authorization of the US Federal Court in a mediation between a US and English company in April 2019.” – Judge James E. Gates of the US Federal Court Languages Swedish, … Continued

Client Feedback: Kenwick believes that thorough preparation is the basis for mediation. Being dedicated and constructive, he works whole-heartedly by aiming at resolving disputes between the parties. 

Languages German, English Overview Klaus-Olaf zehle is working as a mediator since 2005, during which time he has conducted more than 150 mediations. Also he has conducted 30 large conflict moderations since 2004. His mediation areas are conflicts between stakeholders in large companies or family owned enterprises i.e, shareholders, unions, employees – conflicts in StartUp … Continued