On April 22, CLDP organized a conference with the Kuwait Commercial Arbitration Center for 150 lawyers on the role of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in resolving disputes involving start-ups and international transactions. Commercial litigation in Kuwait is lengthy, unpredictable and costly...

From May 14-16, CLDP facilitated discussions between the Saudi Arabia National Center for Privatization and Public Private Partnership (NCP) and potential U.S. partners during the annual meeting of the U.S. National Center for Public Private Partnership (NCPPP) in Denver, CO. NCP estimates that the...

On July 9-11 2019, CLDP held a workshop on Regulations Development and World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements pertaining to Food Safety, in cooperation with Egypts National Food Safety Authority (NFSA). Food Safety is a priority issue for Egypt. To ensure food safety for Egyptian consumers and...

On July 30-31, in Dhaka, CLDP conducted a training program for 25 officials from the Public Private Partnership Authority (PPP Authority) and other ministries. Due to an exponential need for infrastructure, the Government of Bangladesh has been building its PPP framework for the past six years. CLDP...

On July 10-11, 2019, CLDP and USTR conducted a workshop on Building Innovation in Processes and Proactively Developing Products, for 108 government officials, academics, and industry representatives from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in San Salvador, El Salvador.

On May 13-15, 2019, CLDP led a workshop on developing competition in Georgias pharmaceutical market in Tbilisi, Georgia. The workshop was planned in cooperation with the Competition Agency of Georgia and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi.

On April 22, CLDP organized a conference with the Kuwait Commercial Arbitration Center for 150 lawyers on the role of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in resolving disputes involving start-ups and international transactions. Commercial litigation in Kuwait is lengthy, unpredictable and costly...

On April 1-2, in Singapore, CLDP, in coordination with INSOL International (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals), supported the participation of judges from Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia in the 13th INSOL Judicial Colloquium. INSOL...

On May 13-14, 2019, CLDP held a two-day workshop on Public Private Partnership Finances in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This is the second event in a series of workshops that CLDP will facilitate in Ethiopia on Public-Private Partnerships.

Just as Houston is, in the U.S., the center of the oil and gas sector, in Iraq, Basrah is the center of the oil and gas sector. In fact, for this reason, as a result of past CLDP work, there is now a sister-city agreement between Houston and Basrah. From May 3, 2019, through May 9, 2019, at the...