Anand Iyengar
Mediator · Business owners and partners
Owners know their numbers better than anyone. I help them hear each other’s.
Anand advised closely held companies, from formation to partner exits, before he started mediating. He now sits between owners who disagree about price, roles or who gets which client.
He asks for the operating agreement and the last two years’ statements early, and keeps the first session to the numbers.
Mediates
- Buyouts and exits
- Dividing clients and accounts
- Family companies
- Vendor and customer disputes
Admissions, courts, education and languages
- Bar admissions
- Iowa2009
- Courts
- Iowa state courts2009U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa2011
- Education
- J.D., University of Iowa College of Law2009B.S., Iowa State University2006
- Mediation training
- Civil and commercial mediation training, 40 hours2014
- Languages
- EnglishTamilHindi
- Memberships
- Association for Conflict Resolution
How Anand prepares owners
Before the joint session he asks each owner to write down three outcomes they could live with and one they can’t.
At the table, he works from those lists and from the documents you bring, not from his own view of what the business is worth.
What Anand mediates
Partner buyouts
Price, payment terms and the date of the handover.
Splitting a business
Clients, employees, equipment and the name on the door.
A family company’s next owner
Who runs it, who owns it and what the others receive.
Would you like Anand to mediate?
Say so on your first call and we’ll look at his calendar before anyone else’s.