- Reduce the costs of conflict and dispute resolution
- Achieve better and more commercially sustainable outcomes than those typically available through litigation or arbitration
- Preserve strong business relationships by focusing on future cooperation rather than past disagreements
- Promote a constructive and collaborative working environment – both internally and externally
- At signalere virksomhedens samarbejdskultur til omverdenen
- Negotiation and mediation provide an opportunity to achieve solutions that are more commercially sound, more flexible, and more durable than those typically available through litigation or arbitration.
Better and more commercially sound outcomes
Our focus is to resolve commercial disputes through negotiation and mediation rather than litigation or arbitration because:
- Businesses rarely have a commercial interest in leaving important business decisions to a judge or arbitrator.
- Most commercial disputes are not matters of legal principle.
- Commercial conflicts are often rooted in human factors such as poor communication, misunderstandings, mistrust, conflicting interests, and an inability to recognise the other party's underlying interests.
- On average, Danish companies spend 8.2% of their after-tax profit on disputes. In the construction industry, the figure is as high as 14.1%*.
- Litigation and arbitration are often lengthy processes. On average, court proceedings take 16 months, while arbitration takes 18 months.*
- Negotiation and mediation provide an opportunity to achieve solutions that are more commercially sound, more flexible, and more durable than those typically available through litigation or arbitration.
* Source: White Paper: Mediation from a Societal Perspective (2016), published by the Danish Mediation Institute (Mediationsinstituttet) in collaboration with Qbis Consulting.