Mediation & Arbitration
In this practice
Business & real estate
- Disputes between partners and neighbours
- Contractor–resident disputes
- Planning and construction conflicts
Family & generations
- Disputes between couples and family members
- Inheritance and agricultural holdings
- Management of family wealth
Arbitration
- A process for deciding a dispute
- Review of the case by an arbitrator
In detail
In today’s complex business and personal relationships, not every disagreement needs to end in court. Our firm offers a professional, discreet alternative to resolving disputes, recognising that a swift, effective and agreed solution is often the best path financially and personally.
We bring legal expertise, a strong economic background and many years of experience with complex transactions and commercial and family relationships. This allows us to examine a dispute through both the law and the real needs and future interests of everyone involved.
Our services
- Business and real estate mediation: Resolving disputes between partners, family members and neighbours, contractor–resident disputes, and complex planning and construction conflicts. We develop creative compromises that can help stalled projects move forward.
- Arbitration: A professional, focused and efficient decision-making process. Arbitration at our firm gives the parties a decision-maker with a detailed understanding of the case, without the procedural complexity of lengthy court proceedings.
- Family and intergenerational mediation: Sensitive, professional support in disputes between couples and family members, inheritance disputes, the division of agricultural holdings and the management of family wealth. Our aim is to preserve family relationships while reaching fair and sustainable arrangements.
Our approach
We tailor our approach to each case. Beyond facilitating dialogue, we work actively to find common ground, narrow differences and develop solutions that close a dispute rather than create new ones.
The mediation unit
The most interesting mediation, in which we were involved, occurred in the 80s of the last century, during the war in southern Lebanon. A series of meetings was conducted in the Synagogue of the city of Compiègne (France), during which a Catholic priest studied Hebrew with Adv. Uri Shiloh, and had conversations about current events. At the end of one year of meetings the priest was interviewed to a local newspaper in France, and spoke about the special experience he had and told the reporter that through these meetings he made peace between Judaism and Catholicism.
Although the legal system sets tools to resolve almost any dispute by litigation, mediation can, sometimes, heal the conflicts in a quick and less painful manner. Based on this philosophy, a mediation unit was set up in our firm. The Mediation Unit deals with business disputes, family disputes through humanistic view and derived by a desire to help people, wherever they are, to improve their personal welfare.
The head of the unit is Adv. Nili Shiloh (LLB, MBA) who specializes in Marriage, family and business conflicts. She is recognized by the Israeli Association for Psychoanalytic targeted as a consultant for a focused change. The mediation work, especially in the family matters, demands special skills, and not only legal experience. Couples who choose to separate through mediation are accompanied through all the intensive meetings until an agreement is signed and the court approves the divorce agreement.
The mediation unit also specializes in resolving disputes between individuals, business organizations and the authorities (e.g. local authorities, governmental ministries etc.), and in resolving complex commercial disputes of various kinds.
It is worth noting that our team of mediators includes experts in business administration, economists, architects – all with in-depth knowledge of business, environment, planning and construction and economic issues.