Join CEDR’s webinar on the mediation of shareholder disputes, a complex area where business, law, and personal relationships often intersect. We will explore how mediation can provide a practical, confidential, and cost-effective way to resolve these conflicts while preserving both the company assets and its commercial relationships.
Our session will draw on real-world examples and expert insights from CEDR mediators Eve Pienaar and Robin Somerville.
Eve Pienaar
Eve is a highly regarded commercial mediator, working across a range of commercial sectors including property and construction, professional negligence, shareholder disputes and insolvency. Her practice includes contentious probate and workplace cases. Eve is ranked as Tier 2 in Legal 500, Band 2 with Chambers & Partners and recognised as a mediation Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology. She has mediated over 350 commercial cases and is regularly sought after for complex, high value or multi party cases.
Robin Somerville
Robin is a mediator specialising in shareholder, partnership, board, business, family business, commercial and technology disputes. He mediates, advises and acts as a mediation advocate, typically in respect of multi-million-pound business disputes. The largest to date was a family dispute worth £120m. Robin also sits as a judge, arbitrator and adjudicator and was previously an Ombudsman at the Financial Ombudsman Service. Robin has been a judge at the ICC International Mediation Competition in Paris since 2017.