Law & Mediation Office Adler

We are a LAW & MEDIATION Office, with offices in Vienna and Zagreb, specializing in family conflicts in Family Businesses.

In other words, our Mediation office has been dedicated to LAW & MEDIATION in Family Businesses for years in the area of inheritance law and other family conflicts (popularly speaking: real-estate  – divorce – property – inheritance).

Family Businesses, that do MEDIATION with Mag. Adler come from Austria, but also internationally from the Balkan countries, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia, as well as from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

We have mastered the legal basics, but in mediation we do not usually give legal advice. We suggest our clients to get legal consultations even before mediation.

Our focus lays more on the knowledge that Family Businesses typically have to take economic and family aspects into account at the same time. This can lead to conflicts. Legal position are of course important, thus in the mediation legal knowledge does not help much, e.g. conflicts between the founder and his daughter-in-law, who also works in the company, or the rights of grandchildren, some of whom work in the company and some of whom do not.

Such situations can be regulated in a contract, but not before fundamental and comprehensive family discussions are held. Discussions that do not leave out any family member who should be there! The result of such discussions should be harmony in the family!

That is why we believe that we can best support the members of a Family Business by focusing on the unspoken interests, feelings, emotions and positions, and helping our clients to take one or more steps forward in this area!

The advantage of Family Business Mediation is that many families who have or run a family business have the opportunity for the first time to sit together at a real or virtual table (in our Mediation Office !) and try to talk openly about very complex and often stressful situations.

Since we know that such conversations do not usually take place on their own in most families, we offer the members of the family business an opportunity to talk openly in a protected, safe and confidential environment.