Seminar about acquisition of enterprises - Chambre de métiers et de l'artisanat Seine et Marne (Bulletin Artisanat, N°90, Nov-Dec 2014, p.8).
A seminar dedicated to the acquisition of enterprises, organised by the Chambre de métiers et de l'artisanat, with a specific theme related to the legal documentation : LOI, guarantees, acquisition contract. This is the opportunity to remind the importance of the legal acts and to prepare the legal documents sufficiently in advance, during the negotiating process - and even before in order to secure the optimization process.
About the OHIM’s first ever IP Mediation Conference (Office for Harmonizatoin in the Internal Market), Alicante, Spain.
OHIM asked Fabienne van der Vleugel to anlayse the following topic : "Leave the Law outside the Door, Commercial Interests come first" (cf. conference 29.05.2014, website VDV AVOCATS).
The session of Fabienne has been commented on the website IPKAT (see below).
"[---] It was a stunning, dramatically delivered oration on the topic "Leave the Law outside the Door … Commercial Interests come first". [---] Lawyers could be the biggest enemies of mediation -- but, when properly trained and with the right attitude, they could also be mediation's biggest friend [---] Her last words: "leave the law outside the door -- but don't close it"
For the third time, Fabienne van der Vleugel, as international commercial mediator, has been nominated in the WHO’S WHO LEGAL.
The 2014 April edition "Who’s Who Legal FRANCE 2014", in its article "Mediation Marketplace Analysis" (web site), and in its paper edition (page 68) analyses the development of mediation in France and has selected 11 recognized experienced mediators, including Fabienne van der Vleugel - together with her 10 other peers.
« [---] Mediation in France’s commercial sector is slowly gaining momentum. The civil procedure code contains modern provisions to facilitate the use of mediation and new legislation is expected to encourage the development of ADR in France. Eleven lawyers are selected for inclusion, demonstrating its growing popularity. [---] Fabienne van der Vleugel, founder of VDV Avocats is “going from strength to strength” in the fields of mediation, negotiation and court-approved consensus arbitration. She is head of the firm’s ADR department and regularly appointed as an institutional mediator for conducting mediations in French or English. [---]” (source : Who's Who Legal France 2014, cf. lien web).
Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution method which is increasingly used by the managers of national or international companies.
Some companies even insureds in their sales general conditions or in some peculiar contract, mediation clauses in order to make sure that, in case of dispute, such dispute may be solved through a negotiated process between parties and, in case this direct negotiated process does not solved issue, practice may have recourse to mediation in order to void as much as possible the recourse of judicial proceedings.
WHO'S WHO LEGAL MEDIATION 2014 : nomination for mediation in France.
WHO’S WHO LEGAL MEDIATION 2014 (page 34) has selected 4 mediators for France, including Fabienne van der Vleugel, with her peersThierry Garby, Claude Amar and Ronald Austin.
WHO'S WHO : nomination in the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Commercial mediation 2013.
Fabienne van der Vleugel has been nominated by her peers as one of the world's leading practitioners in the field of international commercial mediation, in the publication WHO'S WHO LEGAL, "The International WHO'S WHO of Business Lawyers - Commercial mediation 2013".