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Voluntary Early Mediation (VEM) Program

Choosing a Mediator

The parties agree that BASF will administer the case if this mediator is chosen. File the Mediation Consent form (43KB PDF) to initiate the process.

Matthew J. Geyer

Attorney/Mediator/Arbitrator

Areas of Experience: Business, Commercial, Construction, Contract, Disability Rights, Discrimination, Employment, Entertainment, Environmental, Fee Disputes, Government, Insurance, Labor, Landlord/Tenant, Land Use, Legal Malpractice, Probate, Real Estate, Securities

From 1985 through 2002, Matt Geyer was a Commercial Litigation Partner, and for several years Chair of the Commercial Litigation Group, at two of San Francisco's premier law firms - first at Landels Ripley & Diamond, and later at Rogers Joseph O'Donnell & Phillips.

His litigation practice has covered a variety of industries, including real estate, banking, venture capital, securities, gaming and others, and a wide range of legal issues affecting them, including contract interpretational and other disputes, minority shareholder and executive employee terminations and disputes, copyright and trademark infringement, franchise, partnership and corporation law, and both commercial and residential landlord/tenant law.

In 1991 he began serving as a neutral arbitrator in commercial cases involving a similar range of law and industries, and he sits on the American Arbitration Association's Large Complex Case Panel, its National Roster of Commercial Arbitrators, its Securities Panel and its Panel of Mediators. At the end of 2001, he began to focus his practice increasingly on service as a neutral. A year later, in the wake of changes in California law affecting arbitrators and mediators, he left the big firm life - and the conflicts such a practice presents for neutrals - to set up his own firm in San Francisco.

Geyer's practice now focuses primarily on service as a neutral arbitrator and mediator, although he continues to serve as general outside counsel to one long-standing East Coast client, a NYSE-traded company with a major customer in California.

Hourly Rate: $325