Our Mission
Wolf von Kumberg
Certified Mediator, Arbitrator and Conflict Avoidance Board Member
Lecturing at Queen Mary's University. London, UK.
Conflict Resolvers
About Us
Wolf spent nearly 30 years in London, as European Legal Director and Assistant General Counsel to Northrop Grumman a global aerospace/security company. In that position he was responsible for its international legal affairs. Prior to that, he served 5 years as the Vice President – Legal Affairs for Litton Canada, after having spent several years in legal practice with a major Toronto Law Firm. He retired from Northrop Grumman in 2015 as its Assistant General Counsel and is now a member of ArbDB Chambers in London and the Managing Director of Global Resolution Services a provider of dispute resolution services.In 2019 Wolf established Global Resolution Resources LLC in Washington DC to serve the US and Canadian dispute resolution markets. Wolf has received law degrees from Canadian and European Universities and is qualified as a lawyer in both Canada and England.
Wolf was involved in many of Northrop Grumman’s International legal disputes and has been a keen advocate for early dispute resolution (ADR), as well as conflict management. In that context, he is both qualified as an arbitrator and mediator and is an advocate for the broad use of dispute boards by Industry and Government. He has also been instrumental in bringing mediation to Investor/State disputes where he has worked together with ICSID, The Energy Charter Treaty Organisation and CEDR to provide Investor State mediation training and expertise.
Wolf was the first Chair of the International Mediation Institute (IMI), which has advocated international standards for mediators. He is in addition, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and was the Chair of it’s Board of Management. He also serves as a Director of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). Wolf is a co-founder of the International Dispute Registry (IDR), which specialises in drafting ADR systems architecture for States and provides speciality mediation panels for Investor State and State to State disputes. In addition, he has been widely involved in arbitration, mediation and conflict avoidance board training for the CIArb, AAA and CEDR. He sits on the mediation and arbitration panels of the AIAC, AAA and CEDR and is a member of LCIA and the DIFC.
Arabella von Kumberg is Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Dispute Analyst at GRR in Washington, DC. She is an international lawyer, graduating in law at University La Sapienza, Rome, writing her dissertation on The Know-How Contract in American, German and Italian Law. Her work experience includes Associate at Radcliffes Law Firm, as well as, Legal Consultant at Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in London, England. She is fluent in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish.
GRS is a unique service aimed at reducing or resolving conflict risks to global business. Over 1.6 Trillion dollars are spent annually on global commercial disputes. This not only reflects lost profits, but also lost opportunity costs, as human and financial resources are needlessly spent on non-productive activity.
GRS is focused not only on helping to resolve disputes, but also on avoiding future conflicts through a combination of targeted analysis, training and the effective application of ADR tools. Augmenting bottom line profits.
A potential for conflict is present in all commercial relationships, be the business to business or investor to State. Many conflicts can however, effectively be prevented from developing into costly disputes. Global business in particular is subject to conflict risks, which may come from many different sources not recognised until a dispute arises.
GRS draws on a multi-disciplined and multi-cultural team of associated resolution experts with years of global conflict experience. Its managing director has spent over 30 years advising multi national companies in risk avoidance and conflict management. GRS is, therefore, well positioned to tailor the best conflict risk reduction solutions for any business.
With the addition of Global Resolution Resources LLC to the Global Resolutions family, we are now able to cover the US and Canadian dispute resolution market, in addition to Europe, the Middle East and Asia.. Headquartered in Washington DC, the Company provides the full range of ADR services, including mediation, arbitration and dispute board expertise. We are also geared to advise on all of your international dispute avoidance and management needs.
We offer a range of consulting services, all designed to help your company manage its conflicts. Our services are available a la carte so you can get precisely what you need.
Conflicts are destructive to relationships and directly hit the bottom line. We can help analyse where your conflicts start and provide mechanisms to help avoid them altogether saving you money, relationships and reputation.
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