Alternative Dispute Resolution

Expertise

Arbitration

Arbitration is core service in our Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Our team regularly represents clients in commercial arbitrations, working to resolve disputes in a cost-effective, expeditious and commercially sensitive manner.

We focus on results, offering clients detailed knowledge and experience of Irish and international arbitration codes and processes. We are active members of leading ADR institutions, panels, and centres of excellence, including Arbitration Ireland, the Irish International Arbitration Association, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and the Irish Commercial Mediators Association (ICMA).

Our arbitration team has global experience, with strong connections with international arbitration centres and firms in other jurisdictions. These bonds underpin our service to international clients and firms in enforcing arbitral awards and defending challenges to arbitral awards in Ireland.

Mediation

We also utilise mediation where appropriate as an effective ADR approach in the early resolution of disputes, including corporate and commercial disputes, property, shareholder, and workplace disputes. In all cases we take a commercially pragmatic approach to dispute issues with a view to securing the best possible outcomes for our clients.

We also advise clients on the benefits of mediation – including reduced costs, efficient use of time and resources, flexibility, confidentiality, and voluntary participation. Hayes is a long-standing and active member of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association, a not-for-profit organisation which promotes the awareness and use of mediation in business for preventing and resolving disputes.

Conciliation

We have significant experience in advising parties participating in conciliation processes, in particular in the construction sector under the RIAI, Engineers Ireland and PWC procedures. This includes assistance and advice in the preparation of submissions, advocacy for our clients in conciliation hearings, and advice on the merits or otherwise of accepting conciliation recommendations.