72 When most people think of the typical subjects of mediation, they might picture a divorcing couple, or perhaps business partners in dispute. What they rarely imagine, however, is a corporate entity in financial straits—which is, says Adv. Amos Gabrieli, precisely the reason why the Bar-Ilan Faculty of Law’s new Center for Insolvency Mediation is so necessary. “The default path for most companies in financial trouble is a lengthy, costly, and often demoralizing legal process. And the result is that resources that might have helped to turn a viable business around are often directed toward—or exhausted by— the process itself,” says Gabrieli, an experienced mediator and postdoctoral student in Bar-Ilan’s Faculty of Law. “By giving the country’s top lawyers the tools fromwithin their own fields to address insolvency through mediation, we can help shift the legal culture in Israel from one characterized by cynicism and aggression to one that’s more civil, and more beneficial to all parties as a result.” Founded last year by Gabrieli and Bar-Ilan CEO and Senior Vice President Zohar Yinon, together with Adv. Guy Gissin, SRI Global Group CEO and owner Nir Zichlinsky, and Faculty of Law mediation scholars Profs. Michal Alberstein and David Hahn, the first-of-its-kind center offers mediation services to small and mid-size companies at every stage of the insolvency process; trains a select group of outstanding lawyers in conflict resolution and insolvency mediation; and brings the country’s lawyers together for an annual conference that “grows the From Conflict to Civil Discourse The Center for Insolvency Mediation
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