Holland Beckett Lawyers litigation partner Mark Beech has been named as deputy chair of the board of LEADR & IAMA, the biggest dispute resolution membership organisation in the Southern Hemisphere.
The board is the result of the integration of New Zealand membership organisation LEADR with the Institute of Arbitrators and
Mediators Australia (IAMA) on January 1 this year - combining two of Australasia's largest membership organisations for alternative dispute resolution practitioners.
Mr Beech, (pictured), who has been involved in LEADR since 2000, told the Bay of Plenty Times the newly integrated organisation showed the growing trend for synergies across the Tasman.
"There are huge opportunities for practitioners in New Zealand to access a whole new knowledge base out of Australia," he said.
"It means we can deliver services throughout the Pacific Rim more effectively. From a New Zealand business perspective, there can be a level of confidence, there is the ability to access expertise and guidance to resolve disputes, outside the traditional route of the courts, in the wider geographic area."
