From early next year, the focus of our practice will be to advising and assisting clients willing to settle a commercial or industrial dispute through mediation in Indo-Pacific, China/Hong Kong and the Middle-East.
We act exclusively as attorneys and never as mediator, thereby avoiding any potential risk of conflict of interest.
To that end, GIRARD-FOLEY & ASSOCIATES has created a protocol which emphasises the client’s interest whilst preserving the spirit of mediation as a party-centred process.
Newsletter N°14 - Attorneys in international commercial mediation
The protocol provides an analytical method which guides our client step by step from the decision to mediate all the way to the settlement agreement and its implementation.
The protocol has been designed by Philippe GIRARD-FOLEY, founder of the firm. A Member of the Paris Bar, he is a Qualified Mediator with the International Mediation Institute (IMI) in the Hague and with the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (AIADR) in Kuala Lumpur, and a mediation panelist with the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC).
Philippe is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) in London, a Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC), a division of the Singapore High Court and part of the Supreme Court of Singapore and an Expert of the European Commission China and South-East Asia IP SME Helpdesk.
Philippe is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) in London, a Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC), a division of the Singapore High Court and part of the Supreme Court of Singapore and an Expert of the European Commission China and South-East Asia IP SME Helpdesk.
He is based in Kuala Lumpur and Brisbane, travels regularly to Singapore, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney and can assist remotely in e-mediation or in other physical locations in Indo-Pacific, China/Hong Kong or Europe.