After years in the planning stage, an organization offering arbitration and mediation of cross-border business disputes has opened its doors in New Jersey.

From its base in Jersey City, Global Mediation Exchange Center administers a hybrid process combining aspects of arbitration and mediation. Dispute resolutions reached with the help of its roster of experienced neutrals can be confirmed as judgments in 172 countries under a U.N. treaty known as the New York Convention.

Jennifer Brandt, co-founder of Global Mediation Exchange Center. Courtesy photo