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Cases · Business & ownership · Corporate ownership & governance

Respond to a dispute with a co-investor

We're deadlocked with our co-investor. What can we do?

WONE Global reviews the agreements and local law and pursues mediation, a buy-out or proceedings, whichever protects your position best.

Countries in the typical case United Arab Emirates · Cyprus · Greece

The situation

What is happening

Co-investors disagree on strategy, funding or exit, and the deadlock is harming the business.

What is at stake

Deadlock stops decisions and destroys the value of the investment while it lasts.

Who faces this

  • Corporations
  • Mid-sized companies
  • Private clients and families

A scenario

Two familiesPrivate client or family · from Lebanon · in United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, Greece

They co-own hotels in three countries and cannot agree on refinancing.

Where it ends A way forward.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Dispute between shareholders abroad”“Exit from a deadlocked investment”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global reviews the agreements and local law and pursues mediation, a buy-out or proceedings, whichever protects your position best.

Usually led by Disputes and arbitration, with Buying, selling and investing, Contracts and commercial law and Tax and structuring.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Week 1Agreements reviewed.
  2. Week 2Options.
  3. Weeks 3-8Mediation.
  4. ThenBuy-out or proceedings.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Deadlock clauses and buy-sell mechanisms available
  2. 02Mediation, arbitration or a negotiated split
  3. 03How to keep the business running meanwhile

Outcomes

What you receive

  • A deadlock-breaking strategy
  • Negotiated or adjudicated outcome
  • Restructured ownership

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Who handles it

Disputes and arbitration, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Cyprusin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. Greecein the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. United Arab Emiratesin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  4. Argentina WONE Global Partner Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari · Lawyer Brief this Partner →
  5. Kenya WONE Global Partner James Ngochi Ngugi · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  6. Poland WONE Global Partner Andrzej Zacharzewski · Partner Brief this Partner →
  7. Saudi Arabia WONE Global Partner Abdulrahim bin Saleh Al-Zahrani · Founding Partner & General Manager Brief this Partner →
  8. Zambia WONE Global Partner Reagan Blankfein Gates · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  9. India On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  10. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  11. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  12. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →

Dr. Silvia Patricia MaccariPalermo · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari

Lawyer · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Palermo

She is a lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She took his first steps in the nation's judiciary, in the National Labor Court, where he developed a rapid caree…

Andrzej ZacharzewskiKraków · Poland

WONE Global Capability Partner · Poland

Andrzej Zacharzewski

Complete profile

Partner · Zacharzewski & Partners Law Office · Kraków

Attorney at Law. Co-founder of the law firm. Provides litigation services to banks and advises corporate clients in international trade. Supervises the work of the Litigation Department and the International Desk. Chair…

Reagan Blankfein GatesLusaka · Zambia

WONE Global Capability Partner · Zambia

Reagan Blankfein Gates

Managing Partner · Reagan Blankfein Gates Legal Practitioners · Lusaka

Reagan started his career in practice at Mainza & Company where he had interned while pursuing a bar qualification at the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) in 2008. Upon being called to the bar, Reaga…

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UNIONE™ · Before You Arbitrate™

If this becomes a dispute, test it first.

Test the claim or the defence, the evidence, the exposure and the settlement options before committing to formal proceedings.

For this moment

UNIONE™ is the UNBOUNDED™ Global Ecosystem's institution for cross-border dispute prevention, resolution, arbitration and enforcement. Like WONE Global, it is part of the ecosystem, and the two work as one. Links open theunione.org. Visit UNIONE™ · Disputes with WONE Global and UNIONE™