CLDP co-sponsored and participated in a public-private Working Group meeting on Insolvency Reform in coordination with Georgia’s Business Rehabilitation and Insolvency Practitioners Association (BRIPA). The Working Group meeting provided a platform to Georgian bankruptcy practitioners and judges to...

On September 20-21, 2022, CLDP, in partnership with Arbitration Initiative Georgia (AIG), conducted a two-day Training of Trainers Workshop for the 12^th Annual Tbilisi Vis Pre-Moot. The workshop brought together the coaches of Vis Moot teams from Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan for training...

On September 27-29, 2022, CLDP, in partnership with the Georgia Revenue Service (GRS), conducted a three-day workshop on Best Practices: TFA Article 7 Post Clearance Audit & Risk Management (“Workshop”) to further develop the GRS’s capacity in these critical areas of customs enforcement. The...

From August 29^th – September 16^th CLDP will conduct a series of consultations on the digitalization of trade corridors in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. The goal of CLDP’s Eastern Europe Regional Customs portfolio is to boost connectivity amongst the portfolio countries and to provide them with...

On July 30-31, CLDP held a Judicial Workshop on the Adjudication of Civil Intellectual Property Infringement Cases (“Workshop”) for Georgian judges in Batumi, Georgia. CLDP brought two U.S. Federal District Court judges and a European Union IP expert to the Workshop to train judges from the Georgian...

On July 25-26, CLDP partnered with the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia (“Sakpatenti”) to host the 6th Annual International Conference “Georgia Against Counterfeiting and Piracy” (“Conference") in Batumi, Georgia. CLDP and Sakpatenti brought together intellectual property government...

On May 12, 2022, CLDP convened the first formal meeting of a working group on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the South Caucasus. The mission of the new working group, which consists of members from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, is to help make ADR an affordable, available, and effective...

On May 13, 2022, CLDP and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Georgia co-hosted the Eastern Europe & CIS International Arbitration Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference was attended by leading arbitration specialists from within and outside of Georgia, including the President of...

CLDP will facilitate the first virtual meeting of a regional working group on alternative dispute resolution (ADR).  The working groups is comprised of ADR professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and will focus on opportunities for regional collaboration on ADR issues. The initial meeting...

On March 4-6, CLDP, in coordination with Arbitration Initiative Georgia, will host the 11th Annual Tbilisi Vis Pre-Moot, a hybrid simulated oral advocacy competition that helped law students from the Caucasus prepare for the 29th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. As the...