Business mediation for startups and scaleups

We help founders, management and investors prevent and resolve disputes.

 

Our expertise

We are experts in conflict resolution and well-steeped in the legal aspects of running a business. Through mediation, we assist founders, investors and other stakeholders in preventing and resolving disputes. We have mediated in numerous conflicts.

 

Mediation

Mediation is essentially a series of conversations supervised by an impartial mediator, someone skilled in resolving disputes. Under the mediator’s guidance, parties explain their positions and explore solutions. This process enables divergent lines of thinking to meet again and to either get collaborations back on track or to resolve disputes amicably.

Mediation is a consent-based method for dispute resolution and a binding business solution used by the world's preeminent companies. Because of its speed, low cost and flexibility, mediation is ideally suited for growth companies’ related conflicts. 

Track record and skills

We have acted as mediator in numerous disputes, ranging from shareholder conflicts in relation to the issuance and distribution of shares to (forced) exits of one or more founders. We have also assisted management and shareholders at the incorporation phase, to ensure alignment of priorities, expectations and responsibilities.

Clients benefit from our ability to help them communicate interests and solutions clearly, a keen understanding of investment rounds, and a detailed knowledge of shareholder and contract matters.

 

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​As specialists in law and communication, we found that too many companies all around us failed to benefit from the potential of mediation to prevent or resolve conflicts that are holding back their potential. That is why we founded Startup Mediation.

- Joep Wolfhagen and Thomas van Neerbos