On June 17-18, 2024, CLDP, in close cooperation with the Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Armenia, held a Public Private Roundtable on Enhancing the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Yerevan, Armenia. Representatives from the Government of Armenia, business...

On May 17, 2024, CLDP will partner with the Corporate Governance Center of Armenia and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) to support the 2nd Annual International Corporate Governance Conference. Through presentations, panels, interviews, and debates, the Conference will address...

The OECD granted CLDP’s counterpart, Armenia’s Corporate Governance Center (CGC), the right to publish an official Armenian translation of the OECD/G20 Principles of Corporate Governance, as updated in 2023. On March 21, 2024, CLDP sponsored and participated in CGC’s launch and presentation of the...

From February 14-18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), in coordination with Arbitration Initiative Georgia, led three programs to prepare law students from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Germany to compete in the annual Willem C. Vis International...

On November 6-10, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) supported a team of Armenian academics and IP professionals as they promoted a plan to establish the Armenian Technology Transfer Foundation (ATTF), an independent and not-for-profit foundation that...

CLDP and the Competition Protection Commission of Armenia (CPC) conducted a two-day workshop, held June 22-23, 2023, on digital markets regulation and enforcement. CLDP convened experts from DOJ Antitrust Division and the Lithuania Competition Council to lead sessions focused on market power...

On June 29 and 30, 2023, in collaboration with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), CLDP co-hosted and participated in the Corporate Governance Center’s (CGC) 2023 annual conference, “Collaboration for Sustainable Corporate Governance.” The event drew together over 80 private...

From February 22-26, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), in coordination with Arbitration Initiative Georgia, led the 12^th Annual Tbilisi Vis Pre-Moot with three programs to prepare law students from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, and Germany to...

From March 28-April7, 2023, CLDP will sponsor six teams from the Western Balkans, and 3 teams from the Southern Caucasus to attend the 30th Willem C. Vis Moot competition (Vis Moot) that will take place in Vienna, Austria from March 31-April 7, 2023. On March 28-29, the teams will participate in the...

On December 14-15, 2022 CLDP and the Armenian Competition Protection Commission (CPC) held a workshop on Anticompetitive Agreements and Mergers in Regulated Sectors to further develop CPC’s capacity in these critical areas of competition law enforcement. The Workshop brought CPC officials involved...