Eve Pienaar – CEDR  Accredited in 2007, CEDR's ‘calm, sensible and hard-working’ Eve Pienaar ’gets involved, she tells it as it is, and suggests a way forward to keep the negotiations going, so as to reach a conclusion. Eve can be creative and assertive as the situation demands, and she also has a very good understanding of the commercial realities of each case’. A full-time commercial mediator, Pienaar conducts property, construction, professional negligence and shareholder disputes, as well as conflicts involving commercial contracts, insolvencies, trusts, wills, probate, and the public sector. Mediating over 400 commercial cases to date, Civil Mediation Council Fellow Pienaar also handles workplace and employment mediation In a recent 12-month period, she was appointed to mediate 38 commercial cases.
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Commercial Mediation

Position

Full time CEDR commercial mediator.

CEDR accredited in 2007, Eve joined the CEDR commercial panel in 2009 and CEDR Faculty in 2012.

Highly experienced commercial mediator working across a broad range of sectors, including property, construction, shareholder, insolvency and general commercial as well as contentious probate, Wills and Trust disputes.  Experience includes international and multi-party commercial disputes.

Eve has a busy commercial practice, working on an average of 40 mediation cases a year.  She is sought after for her ability to engage with clients, her commercial approach and persistence in helping the parties reach settlement. Eve is a frequent speaker on mediation related topics and seminars.

Career

Admitted as Solicitor – Clifford Chance - 1989

General Counsel roles in international organisations, including RICS, RIBA, Warner Bros.

Languages

English / French – bi-lingual Conversational Spanish

Memberships

CEDR commercial mediation panel Civil Mediation Council (CMC) International Mediation Institute (IMI) Association Francophone Internationale de Mediation (AFIM)

Education

Law Society admission – 1987

English/ French law BA (II-1 Hons.) - 1986

University of Kent, Canterbury

& Université de Paris Sud, Orsay

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