About Sylvia Mayer

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Sylvia Mayer:

Arbitrator. Mediator. Attorney.

Depth of Experience

Sylvia Mayer is an attorney with over 30 years of experience in courts nationwide and over 10 years of experience as a neutral.  As a National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals member and a TMCA Credentialed Distinguished Mediator, Sylvia Mayer has served as counsel or neutral in thousands of disputes spanning a breadth of industries and a wide variety of issues.  She serves on several arbitration and mediation rosters for civil, commercial, consumer, energy, employment, and healthcare disputes.  As a neutral, she has resolved disputes with damages ranging from several thousand dollars to multi-million and billion dollars.  As an arbitrator, she has served as an emergency, chair, panel, and sole arbitrator.  As a mediator, she has mediated two-party disputes and complex multi-party disputes.

S. Mayer Law’s principal office is located in Houston, Texas.  A Houston mediator and arbitrator, Sylvia Mayer is available to assist parties throughout Texas and around the country with online, in-person, and hybrid mediations and arbitrations.

Breadth of Experience

Sylvia Mayer has served as counsel, mediator or arbitrator in disputes spanning a breadth of industries and a wide variety of issues, including:

  • Avoidance Actions
  • Banking
  • Bankruptcy
  • Business Divorces
  • Business Separations
  • Civil Litigation
  • Collections
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction
  • Consumer
  • Contracts
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporations
  • Credit
  • Director and Officer Liability
  • Distribution
  • Employment
  • Energy
  • Exploration and Production
  • Fiduciary Duties
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Fraud
  • Fraudulent Transfers
  • Healthcare
  • Hospitality
  • Insolvency
  • Insurance
  • Landlord-Tenant
  • Lender Liability
  • Limited Liability Companies
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanic’s and Vendor Liens
  • Natural Gas
  • Oil and Gas
  • Oilfield Services
  • Partnerships
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Personal Injury
  • Pipelines and Transportation
  • Preference Actions
  • Professional Liability
  • Real Estate
  • Retail
  • Royalties
  • Sales
  • Secured Transactions
  • Securities
  • Surety Bonds
  • Telecommunications
  • Torts
  • Transportation
  • Wholesale

Work History

  • S. Mayer Law PLLC – 2014 – Present
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP – 1993 – 2014

Education

Sylvia graduated from Washington University in 1987, cum laude, with a B.A. in Theater.  After working for three years in the arts community in Houston, Sylvia went to law school and, in 1993, she graduated from the University of Houston Law Center, summa cum laude.

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Sylvia Mayer is recognized as a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
Sylvia Mayer is a panel member of the American Arbitration Association.
Sylvia Mayer is a Credentialed Advanced Mediator with the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association.
Sylvia Mayer is a Dispute Resolution Service Neutral in the American Health Law Association
Sylvia Mayer is a CPR Neutral in the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution
Certified women's business enterprise
Certified Women Owned Business
American Bankruptcy Institute member since 2005
American Bankruptcy Institute Committee Leader

With nearly 30 years of legal experience, Sylvia Mayer offers experience, creativity, tenacity and sincerity to help parties solve problems.