ben@mediationservices.net | 206 499 4257
MEDIATION
Mediation has incredible potential to create tailored, sustainable, cost-effective solutions. Ben’s goal as a mediator is to help the participants identify and structure a tailored resolution, rather than merely encouraging them to compromise. He understands that each business, each transaction, even each dispute, has its own rhythm, and he is committed to helping participants reach resolution in a manner cognizant of those rhythms.
EXPERTISE
Ben brings to mediation broad experience as a business lawyer creating solutions in complex, dynamic situations. Ben’s experience ranges from handling employment and executive compensation matters, to debt and equity financings for public companies, startups and private equity funds, to negotiating license, service and investment agreements with critical customers, suppliers and partners. He has considerable experience with complex securities transactions and mergers and acquisitions and has helped structure solutions and resolve disputes involving globally recognized technology companies, startups, private equity funds, insurance companies and institutional investors.
EXPERIENCE
Ben most recently served as the VP, Chief Counsel, Corporate Affairs at Intellectual Ventures, a $7B invention investment fund manager with operations in Asia, Europe and the US. He and his team provided legal support for strategic transactions, fund raising, corporate governance, finance, compliance, corporate communications, investor relations and human resources.
Previously, Ben served as a securities and M&A lawyer at AT&T Wireless, where he played a key role in negotiating and closing a number of significant transactions, including the sale of AT&T Wireless to Cingular for $41 Billion.
Ben spent the initial 15 years of his career in private practice in Seattle as a corporate and securities lawyer. Ben advised clients in the technology, telecommunications, bio-tech, manufacturing and financial services industries regrading public and private financings, SEC compliance, strategic relationships, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Amherst College, AB 1981
Cornell University, JD 1986
Alhadeff and Forbes, Basic Mediation Training, 2005
Strause Institute, Conflict Resolution Counseling, 2013
King County Dispute Resolution Center, Basic Mediation Training, 2016
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Technology Alliance: Board member 2014-present; Executive Committee member 2016-present
Mediator and conflict coach – Startup425resolve program – City of Bellevue
