About Bounds Green Mediation
The Challenges
The Challenges
The Challenges
- Business and Natural Resource disputes;
- Deals at an impasse or gone wrong;
- Closing multi-party deals;
- Multi-party environmental problems;
- Complex financings and real estate deals;
- Executive and HR disputes;
- Bankruptcies and restructurings; and
- Agreements among conservation groups, state and federal government, and industry.
Cross-cultural iss
- Business and Natural Resource disputes;
- Deals at an impasse or gone wrong;
- Closing multi-party deals;
- Multi-party environmental problems;
- Complex financings and real estate deals;
- Executive and HR disputes;
- Bankruptcies and restructurings; and
- Agreements among conservation groups, state and federal government, and industry.
Cross-cultural issues are the hardest, but they are part of who I am. Born in Venezuela and a dual US/UK national educated in both countries and Mexico, CLO of a Quebec based multi-national, and 32 years working in Europe and Latin America gives me the background to navigate culture.
The Approach
The Challenges
The Challenges
I work with the parties to design a process for each matter. A standard multi-step meeting process:
- Preparation – speak with the parties and counsel to understand their thinking on the impasse.
- Facilitate the parties sharing their concerns with each other.
- We develop a written agenda of issues.
- Facilitate the parties exploring the agenda i
I work with the parties to design a process for each matter. A standard multi-step meeting process:
- Preparation – speak with the parties and counsel to understand their thinking on the impasse.
- Facilitate the parties sharing their concerns with each other.
- We develop a written agenda of issues.
- Facilitate the parties exploring the agenda issues in depth.
- The parties generate options with my facilitation.
- Facilitate the parties evaluation of the options.
- Reach a partial or complete agreement.
- As much as possible, I encourage the parties to do this together in one room, with breakouts for me to caucus with each side as needed.
Experience
The Challenges
Experience
- LinkedIn profile
- Chief Legal Officer of two large multinational public companies, sat on countless boards, and saw every crisis from the murder of a board member and former founder in the glare of NYC press to the first dual Chapter 11 merger prepack bankruptcy.
- General manager of two businesses. Stabilized a 100-million-pound UK manufactu
- LinkedIn profile
- Chief Legal Officer of two large multinational public companies, sat on countless boards, and saw every crisis from the murder of a board member and former founder in the glare of NYC press to the first dual Chapter 11 merger prepack bankruptcy.
- General manager of two businesses. Stabilized a 100-million-pound UK manufacturer, then sold its pieces for a recovery. Led a turnaround of a software business that turned from loss to profit in six months.
- Chairman of the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission and board member of Greater Outdoors Colorado (GOCO). Board of the Student Conservation Association, the modern heir to 1930s Civilian Conservation Corp. Interned with the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Counsel. Worked in TX/OK oilfields in college.