A Distinguished Neutral with NADN and a Credentialed Distinguished Mediator with TMCA, Sylvia Mayer is an experienced arbitrator, mediator, and attorney.  She has over 30 years of legal experience and serves on neutral rosters for business, commercial, consumer, contract, employment, energy, financial services, healthcare, and technology disputes, including with the AAA, AHLA, CPR, FINRA, ICC, NAM, and New Era ADR.  Serving as chair, wing, sole, or emergency arbitrator, or as a two-party or complex multi-party mediator, she has resolved disputes ranging from thousands to billions.  She is available to assist parties throughout the U.S. with online, in-person, and hybrid mediations and arbitrations.

An experienced and independent arbitrator and mediator, Sylvia Mayer has served as neutral in disputes involving a wide variety of issues spanning a breadth of industries, including accounting, avoidance actions, banking, bankruptcy, business divorces and dissolutions, business torts, civil litigation, collections, commercial leasing, commercial litigation, construction, consumer, contracts, corporate governance, corporations, credit, cryptocurrency, director and officer liability, distribution, employment, energy, exploration and production, fiduciary duties, finance, financial markets, financial services, fraud, fraudulent transfers, healthcare, health systems, hospitality, insolvency, insurance, landlord-tenant, lemon law, lender liability, life sciences, limited liability companies, malpractice, manufacturing, mechanics and vendors liens, natural gas, oil and gas, oilfield services, partnerships, pharmaceutical, personal injury, pipelines and transportation, preference actions, professional liability, real estate, research and development, retail, royalties, sales, secured transactions, securities, surety bonds, telecommunications and technology, torts, transportation, and wholesale.

From 1993 to 2014, Sylvia was practiced with Weil, Gotshal & Manges where she was a partner in the Houston office.  She worked on large complex business bankruptcy cases, complex commercial litigation and appellate matters, and provided corporate advisory and governance services.  In 2014, Sylvia left Weil to start S. Mayer Law and transition her practice to fulltime neutral work.

• Arbitration
• Bankruptcy
• Business and Commercial
• Consumer
• Cryptocurrency
• Employment
• Energy
• Healthcare
• Mediation
• Technology

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, went to law school and, in 1993, graduated from the University of Houston Law Center, summa cum laude.

Neutral Rosters and Credentials include:

• Academy of Court Appointed Neutrals (ACAN) Neutrals Roster
• American Arbitration Association (AAA) Arbitrator and Mediator Rosters
• American Health Law Association (AHLA) Arbitrator and Mediator Rosters
• CPR Dispute Resolution Services (CPR) Arbitrator and Mediator Rosters
• Credentialed Distinguished Mediator with the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association (TMCA)
• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Arbitrator Roster
• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC/USCIB) Arbitrator and Mediator Rosters
• National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (Texas) (NADN) Arbitrator and Mediator Rosters
• National Arbitration and Mediation (NAM)
• New ERA ADR, Inc. Neutrals Roster
• Resolute Systems Neutrals Roster
• Texas Justice Center, TJC Neutrals List
• Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Balanced Billing Arbitrator and Mediator Rosters
• Virginia Bureau of Insurance Balanced Billing Arbitrator Roster
• Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner Balanced Billing Arbitrator Roster
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court S.D. of Texas, Subchapter V Trustee Panel

Professional Associations and Organizations include:

• American Bar Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• ArbitralWomen
• Association of Attorney Mediators
• American Health Law Association
• Association of Women Attorneys
• Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals
• Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
• Fellow of the American Bar Association
• Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce
• Houston Bar Association
• Impact100 Houston
• International Institute for Conflict Resolution & Prevention
• National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
• National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees
• National Association of Women Lawyers
• State Bar of Texas
• Texas Association of Mediators
• Texas Bar Foundation Sustaining Life Fellow
• Texas Mediators Credentialing Association

Current Community and Bar Service:

• American Bankruptcy Institute, Mediation Committee
• Buckingham Senior Living Community, Inc., Corporate Secretary and Board Member
• Houston Bar Association, Fee Dispute Committee
• Houston Pro Bono Joint Initiative, Founder and Organizer
• Houston Zoo Development Corporation, Director
• Peach Outreach (Non-Profit), Corporate Secretary and Board Member
• State Bar of Texas, ADR Council

Admissions:

• State Bar of Texas
• Fifth Circuit

• Houston, TX

• English