Resolve Complex Disputes Confidently
With 18 years of experience and 1,000+ successfully mediated disputes, Ruwan is recognised as a Leading Mediator by Doyles 2025. Ruwan combines deep legal mastery with nuance negotiation acumen to turn high-stakes conflict into workable commercial outcomes.
Trusted by in-house counsel and top-tier litigators across Australia and internationally.
Tiers Scaled to Your Complexity
Three structured mediation packages — each includes initial consultation, intake sessions, preparation, mediation, and a confidential follow-up report. Choose the tier that matches your dispute's scope and value.
Expedited Mediation
Half-Day Session
For straightforward commercial disputes. Designed to rapidly neutralise single-party disputes with one or two issues before costly court escalation.
Total engagement: 10–11 hours of dedicated mediator oversight.
Comprehensive Mediation
Full-Day Session
An all-inclusive, end-to-end framework designed to achieve strategic finality in complex, high-stakes disputes.
Total Engagement: 18–19 hours of intensive mediator oversight.
Extended Mediation
1.5-Day Session
A multi-stage resolution ecosystem designed to deconstruct complex multi-party friction and engineer readiness for a definitive settlement in matters with complex issues and document discovery.
Total engagement: 27–28 hours of high-level mediator oversight.
All fees are exclusive of GST. Multi-day extensions available upon request. Fixed-fee structure confirmed prior to engagement.
Expertise Across Core Commercial Domains
Specialised knowledge across the full spectrum of commercial conflict — from complex equity disputes to international arbitration.
Business to Business Disputes
Ruwan's primary focus is Business-to-Business (B2B) mediation. He intervenes at critical commercial friction points before they escalate into capital-destructive legal battles that monopolise executive time, expose sensitive data, and permanently sever profitable networks. Dedicated to delivering swift, confidential outcomes, Ruwan's B2B practice protects the client's bottom line—empowering business leaders to pivot away from sunk-cost litigation and back toward strategic market growth.
Corporate, Commercial & Industrial Disputes
Building & Construction | Banking & Finance | Breach of Contract & Equity | Industrial Disputes | Consumer Law
In complex economic ecosystems, disputes are not mere failures—they are natural points of evolutionary friction. Ruwan partners with leading commercial litigators and in-house counsel to deconstruct high-stakes deadlocks. By applying nuanced negotiation acumen and deep legal mastery, we transition stalled commercial mechanics into workable, forward-looking economic realities. Ruwan's focus is on neutralising systemic risk and engineering strategic finality, allowing businesses to evolve and move forward.
Private & Estate Disputes
Complex estate litigation demands a delicate balance of robust legal evaluation and empathetic process management. Having represented numerous parties in Supreme Court Family Provision applications, Ruwan provides the authoritative reality-testing necessary to manage unrealistic client expectations, settling disputes without the unnecessary emotional and financial attrition of a final hearing.
International & Investor-State Dispute Resolution
Ruwan brings deep cross-cultural fluency to complex cross-border commercial conflicts and investor-state dispute resolutions. Educated and experienced across both Sri Lankan and Australian jurisdictions, he possesses an innate capability to navigate diverse negotiation dynamics and conflicting legal traditions. Leveraging his extensive background in international negotiations, Ruwan effectively bridges multi-jurisdictional divides. He applies highly attuned cultural competency to deconstruct international friction, aligning global stakeholders to achieve binding, strategic finality.
18 Years. 1,000+ Disputes.
One Unwavering Standard.
Doyles Leading Mediator 2025 — Asia-Pacific & ICC Panel Judge
Barrister & Commercial Mediator
Ruwan brings 18 years of focused commercial mediation practice and a documented record of over 1,000 successfully resolved disputes across industries — from technology licensing to multi-party infrastructure conflicts.
Recognised by Doyles as a Leading Mediator in 2025, Ruwan sits on international panels and serves as Expert Assessor and Grand Final Judge for Asia-Pacific and ICC Commercial Mediation Competitions. This front-row position within elite competitive advocacy keeps his strategic instincts razor-sharp — and means clients benefit directly from insights at the forefront of global negotiation practice.
Where many practitioners treat disputes as problems to extinguish, Ruwan approaches each engagement as a catalytic event — an opportunity to design more durable commercial frameworks that reduce the likelihood and cost of future conflict.
Professional Affiliations & Recognition
Panel member of leading dispute resolution bodies. Recognised by Doyles Guide among Australia's top mediators for 2025.
Resolve your Dispute Now
Every engagement begins with a complimentary joint phone consultation — confidential, structured, and entirely without obligation. You receive expert assessment of your dispute from the very first conversation.
Whether you are facing a two-party contract dispute or a multi-stakeholder commercial conflict, structured mediation typically resolves matters in weeks rather than years — preserving working relationships and containing legal costs.
No obligation to proceed beyond the discovery phase. All communications are strictly confidential.