Sheana is a barrister and mediator with over 30 years’ experience in dispute resolution.

She spent 10 years as a partner in a major national law firm before beginning practice as a barrister and mediator in 2015. Her extensive experience in dispute resolution covers all spheres from lawyer-facilitated negotiated settlements to formal mediations, to proceedings at all levels of the courts.

As a mediator Sheana draws on her extensive experience to address the parties’ real interests and explore intelligent, pragmatic and creative settlement options. She is a good listener, works hard to facilitate mutual understanding, and finds it is usually possible to achieve an agreement.

She is passionate about mediation as a positive means of resolving disputes and has facilitated the resolution of disputes in many fields including intellectual property, contractual disputes and other commercial disputes. In the ACC area, she mediates ACC review applications for ICRA and in the sports arena she serves on the Mediation Panel of the Sports and Recreation Complaints Mediation Service.

Sheana is a Fellow (Mediation) of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of NZ (AMINZ), a member of AMINZ’s Mediation Panel and IP List, and a Resolution Institute accredited mediator. She is also a member of the Panel of Experts who adjudicate domain name disputes for the New Zealand Domain Name Commission.

With strong interpersonal skills and a breadth of life and legal experience, Sheana brings expertise, positivity and clear thinking to dispute resolution.