World class negotiations
NEGOTIATION SOLUTIONS is a firm working in the areas of commercial and other project based negotiations on a consultancy basis. The firm also specialises in all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration and adjudication.
Working for you
We can optimise your next deal, by negotiating contracts which can raise your profit to a level you did not think possible. We can also help you save money by resolving disputes earlier, avoiding expensive and time-consuming litigation.
NEGOTIATION SOLUTIONS has the objectivity and special skills needed to close deals to your best advantage, and the legal and industry experience to resolve disputes effectively. The potential for improving your business through clever negotiation is limitless.
Specialist skills and experience
Geoffrey Ewing, the Principal of NEGOTIATION SOLUTIONS, is a Consultant Negotiator, Mediator, Arbitrator and Adjudicator. His experience includes 12 years as a litigation partner in a Melbourne legal firm with extensive involvement in the building and construction industry with broad work in dispute resolution in a variety of commercial, industrial and common law matters.
Profile: Geoffrey Ewing LLB, FCIS, MIAMA
- One of the most highly regarded expert negotiators in the resources and construction industries, Geoffrey has helped some of Australia’s leading companies to achieve business success.
An accredited arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator, and a teacher of negotiating skills, Geoffrey’s early professional career was as a litigation partner with a Melbourne law firm. He joined resources giant Rio Tinto as corporate counsel, then company secretary with Bougainville Copper Limited in Papua New Guinea before moving to the roles Minerals Council of Australia assistant director and as Owner’s Representative for the Gladstone Power Station, then to Rio Tinto Aluminium’s general manager of external affairs.- Geoffrey was recently retained as advisor to Tarong Energy on securing an option to buy a 7mtpa coal mine, has advised a professional services firm on resolution of intra-practice disputes, and was instrumental in brokering an Australia-wide agreement on intellectual property among government agencies.
- Holding a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne, Geoffrey is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, and a member of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia. Geoffrey also serves as a director of Museum and Gallery Services Queensland and is an executive councillor of the Queensland branch of the Australian Institute for International Affairs.