​​Pierre Muller

His aim is to ensure that the parties benefit from the most appropriate and proportionate way of resolving their dispute, taking into account parameters such as :
 
– duration, psychological weight and cost of the possible processes, 
– preservation of their relations with each other and with the third parties concerned by their dispute,
– the urgency of the issues to be resolved,
– the need for expert advice.
 
As a mediator, Pierre Muller helps the parties, with neutrality, to re-establish a constructive dialogue enabling them to cooperate effectively with each other, either for the duration of the mediation, to find the best solutions to their dispute, or in the longer term. 
 
As a conciliator, he may be called upon to help the parties assess the strengths and weaknesses of their respective positions. 
 
He intervenes to prevent the parties from having to go to court, as well as during proceedings, as it is never too late to find a negotiated solution, or to take a moment to clarify the situation and find mutually satisfactory solutions. 
 
His experience in arbitration enables him to act as sole arbitrator or chairman of panels in his areas of expertise, but also to set up ‘tailor-made’ arbitration proceedings in consultation with the parties, particularly in the fields of construction and inheritance, for example by providing for the rapid involvement of an expert or by designing the procedure in such a way as to facilitate the search for an agreement (conciliation). 
 
With parties/counsel who wish to assess the best way of resolving a dispute, he examines the various options and possible combinations during an “exploratory meeting” to help them make an appropriate and proportionate choice.

Pierre Muller regularly participates in various training courses related to his fields of activity. 
 
He works in French and English.

His fields of activity and experience are the following:

• Construction (during or after construction, if necessary with joint intervention of an expert): e.g. conflict between the client and a contractor or an architect, engineer, etc.; between a general contractor and a subcontractor; between specialised agents; between the members of a construction consortium; in relation to a building contractor’s legal mortgage.
• Real estate & neighbourhood: e.g. disputes relating to the execution of a real estate sale or brokerage commission; to a building right; or relations between neighbours or condominium owners. 
• Settlement of an estate between heirs: e.g. difficulties in connection with the division of property or the validity of a will.
• Difficulties between partners of a company or members of bodies of a legal person (e.g. partners of a firm or office of self-employed persons, of a start-up or other company, partners of a limited liability company; shareholders or directors of a public limited company; members of an association or a committee of an association or foundation) in the course of a relationship (e.g. communication problems; loss of information; loss of access to the company’s website) (e.g. communication problems; loss of trust) or at the end of the relationship (e.g. financial settlement, takeover of customers, exercise of a competing activity, intellectual property rights etc.). 
• Labour disputes (during or at the end of the employment relationship). 
• Debt enforcement and bankruptcy and private international law, including international bankruptcy.
• Intellectual property (trademarks; copyright) and unfair competition.
• Civil liability of board directors, statutory auditors, lawyers, notaries. 
• Sports law and sports arbitration (experience as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport).