Joël has built businesses, signed the contracts, and litigated when things went wrong. He mediates the full range of business disputes that emerge from the complex world of commercial enterprise.
Breach of contract, vendor and supplier disputes, supply chain conflicts, and the day-to-day commercial matters that drive business risk.
Operating-agreement breakdowns, distribution disputes, equity buyouts, and the senior-level matters where reputation and money are negotiated together.
Coverage disputes, bad faith claims, and the insurance matters that often live alongside the underlying business litigation.
Disputes that emerge from business matters — vendor breakdowns, executive disputes, founder conflicts, and the matters that defy easy classification.
Soft-tissue through catastrophic. Joël's Daily Journal piece — "The Song and Dance of Mediating Personal Injury Cases" — reflects his expertise.
Joël co-founded Maison Bertet, a construction materials company. He also founded Morgan de Toi USA, the US division of a French international fashion house which grew to over 200 employees and national distribution and retail concept stores across regional malls. He has built businesses, signed paychecks, negotiated with suppliers, and faced the pressures that produce the disputes he now mediates.
That background changes the way he reads the room. When counsel talks about business risk, Joël has felt it. When business counsel talks about the breakdown of a founder relationship, Joël has navigated business divorces — including ones that involved his own family.
