Eve Pienaar – CEDR  Full-time mediator Eve Pienaar at CEDR‘ is ’very calm, but at the same time very positive and enthusiastic. She is also very determined – this is a great mix and just what parties need‘. Conducting over 350 commercial cases to date, Pienaar specialises in property, construction, professional negligence, partnership and shareholder disputes. She also maintains a notable contentious probate practice, and regularly handles workplace and employment mediations. CEDR-accredited in 2007, Pienaar’s workload encompassed approximately 150 commercial mediation days in 2023. Recent examples include a dispute concerning compliance with planning conditions, as well as a defamation and malicious falsehood claim.
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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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