Danny McFadden is dually qualified as a lawyer both in Australia and the UK. He has been involved in negotiation, conflict resolution training, mediation and international business for over 20 years.
Danny speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently and mediates regularly in the commercial, employment, construction, family, succession, and banking, insurance, and property sectors with a particular expertise in cross-cultural disputes. He has provided training to the UN, ADB, IHG, World Bank and MTR. He joined the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) as a Director in 2004 and established a CEDR office in Hong Kong in 2011. Since 2010 he has also acted as Regional Mediator Asia Pacific for the World Bank Group.
An author of many articles on ADR and negotiation; in 2013 his book “Mediation in Greater China” was published and he co-edited “Mediation in Singapore: A practical guide” a publication launched by the Chief Justice of Singapore in March 2015. In 2009 he was appointed
Director of Mediation at the United Nations in New York having assisted with the establishment of the United Nations Ombudsman’s new Mediation Division.
Danny has worked as a trainer in over 30 countries and taught at Singapore Management University and Kobe University, Japan. He has provided consultancy to the legislatures of Hong Kong, China and Vietnam.
He is currently a Member of the Hong Kong Government’s Steering Committee on Mediation, Vice Chairman of HKMAAL and on many mediator panels including the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and CCPIT Mediation Centre Beijing.
Derrick Wilde, is a Barrister of the High Court of Australia, (J.D. Harvard Law School), specialising in the facilitation of international trade and investment, and has been active internationally working in various jurisdictions including China, Africa, Thailand, Canada, United States, Peru, Russia.
He co-authored South Africa and the Rule of Law – Report of the International Commission of Jurists (Geneva) on the enforcement of apartheid as a breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
He acted as a facilitator on behalf of the British (Commonwealth Development Corporation), French and East and West Cameroon Governments negotiating the unification of the East and West Cameroon.
Derrick has acted as advisor to many governments, he prepared a report on Investment in South and East Asia: a comparative study of law and taxation pertaining to investment in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Pakistan for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia and provided memorandum to AUSTRAC (Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre) on international tax evasion.
He has edited International Transactions: Trade and Investment, Law and Finance and China’s International Transactions: Trade and Investment and been a contributor to international law journals on such matters as the Promotion of Industrial Investment in Thailand, the Constitution of Fiji, the Treaty between Australia and Indonesia on the zone of cooperation (Timor Gap). In a notable first in Russian and Ukrainian legal history he brought an international class action on behalf of the dependent families of the victims of the Moscow-Spitzbergen air disaster.
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