Joint-venture exits without the press release.
How structured mediation preserves enterprise value when two founders disagree about the next decade — and the four protocols we keep on the table.
Founders fall out. It is the most ordinary fact in commercial life, and the most expensive when it spills into open court. A joint-venture exit that becomes a news item rarely recovers its valuation.
We work with four protocols. First, a cooling sequence — two weeks of no public statements, no internal emails to staff, no LinkedIn posts. Second, a shared valuation brief commissioned jointly, not by either party.
Third, a settlement architecture that separates capital from control. The two questions — who owns what, and who decides what — are negotiated in different sessions, by different sub-teams.
Fourth, a non-disparagement clause that survives the agreement by ten years. We have not had one breached.