Eve Pienaar

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“Excels on the commercial mediation stage and is commended for her great talent in de-escalating tension and refocusing the parties on the matter at hand”.

Languages

English, French, Spanish

Overview

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.

Eve’s practice includes difficult projects mediated over a longer period of time. Recent cases include mediating division of assets due to the breakdown in relations between high net worth, multi-generational family members, beneficiaries of multimillion-dollar trust funds. Or working with partners of a UK accountancy practice to negotiate terms of exit of their Paris based partners and de-merger of the branch, over a period of six weeks.

Eve regularly contributes articles in the field and speaks on mediation related topics at conferences and panels. She is a Fellow of the CMC and member of Faculty of CEDR. She also mediates for the ICC and LCIA. Eve is an IMI certified commercial mediator.

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