C. Christopher Alberti

C. Christopher Alberti maintains residences in Boston and Beijing, China.  He is an experienced businessman and investor, as well as a mediator, financial advisor and attorney (admitted in Massachusetts and New York).

Mr. Alberti focuses his work as a mediator on major commercial disputes, particularly those that involve cross-border investment, and on transactional mediations, facilitating consensus among parties to joint ventures, alliances or new business ventures regarding their interests, objectives and strategies.  He travels frequently to the United States and throughout Asia to handle projects and assignments.

Mr. Alberti began working in China in 1998 when, as a Morgan Stanley partner, he was seconded as part of the senior management team to China International Capital Corporation, the leading investment bank in China and a joint venture with Morgan Stanley and China Construction Bank as the major shareholders.  Upon returning to the United States, Mr. Alberti did research on why some joint ventures are successful and others fail to meet expectations of the parties.  He also did extensive mediation training both to serve in the traditional mediator’s role helping to resolve commercial disputes and to incorporate the mediator’s tool chest into his work in business and with not-for-profit organizations.  In 2001, he gave a presentation on this subject at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, Business Law Section, Panel on Negotiations, entitled “Negotiating from the Middle – Advising Alliances, Joint Ventures and Other New Business Arrangements.”  

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