KAREN ZADOYAN Managing Partner

LEGAL PRACTICE

Karen Zadoyan is the President of “LEGAL ALLIANCE” Law Firm and leads the organization since its inception. He has 30+ years of professional experience with the following specializations:

Constitutional Law: Human rights, representation in the Specialized Committee on Constitutional Reforms.

Civil Law: · corporate, contractual, property, employment, the establishment of commercial and non-commercial organizations of legal entities, state registration and re-registration of economic companies established by them, reorganization (including merger, accession, division, detachment, reorganization), insurance law, etc.

Administrative Law: administrative, tax, and customs relations, the appeal of administrative acts.

International Law: drafting agreements, contracts with foreign organizations, and establishing foreign legal entities.

Mediation and Dispute Resolution.

Banking and Financial Law.

Conflict Management.

Karen Zadoyan has acted as a national legal expert and consultant in the frameworks of the projects financed by the EU, CoE, OSCE, USAID, UNHCR, NED, GIZ, OXFAM Novib, Embassies of the USA, Czech Republic, and German in the RA.

He is also the author of the idea of the establishment of Iravaban.net independent, professional media outlet.

SERVICES

  • Provision of comprehensive legal assistance to public and local self-governance bodies, international and regional organizations (including NGOs), state non-commercial organizations, commercial and non-commercial organizations, and natural persons,
  • Assessment of legal risks and drafting the legal memo on the elimination of or reducing those risks,
  • Drafting judicial documents, including applications for the Courts of general jurisdiction, Appellate, Cassation as well as Constitutional Court,
  • Foundation of legal entities, including commercial and non-commercial organizations, drafting the founding documents such as statutes and decisions,
  • Compilation of documentation aimed at the reorganization of legal entities (merger, accession, division, detachment, reorganization), and their state registration,
  • State registration and re-registration of NGOs and foundations, as well as economic companies established by them, provision of legal and tax consulting,
  • Management of human resources of legal entities, including the drafting of employment contracts, individual legal acts, job descriptions, Employee Handbooks, and other related documents,
  • Compilation of anti-corruption compliance programs and code of conduct for legal entities, including ethics rules, conflict of interest, gift acceptance and prohibition, internal labor rules, policies on procurement, granting and business trip, other related documents,
  • Designing (sub)grant agreements for non-commercial organizations,
  • Compilation of various civil law contracts, including non-standard agreements,
  • Preparation of internal corporate packages for legal entities,
  • Due Diligence,
  • Negotiations,
  • Conflict Management,
  • Grant and Sub-grants Agreements,
  • Protection of clients’ rights and legal interests before the courts at the different levels, and other state and non-state bodies.

EDUCATION

2016-2017 Center for Media Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga; Future Media Management

1991 – 1996 Yerevan State University, Law Degree

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

February-September 2020 – Specialized Committee on Constitutional Reforms, created by the decision of the RA Prime Minister, Member

2018 – 2019 Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the RA Public Council, Chairman

Since 2003 – Law Foundation of Armenia, Co-founder, and Head of the Board of Trustees

Since 2000 – Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia, Member

Since 1995– Armenian Lawyers’ Association, Founding Member, President

INTERNATIONAL TRAINING

Participation in a number of professional events, training, seminars, workshops in the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Latvia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Denmark, Turkey and Georgia as speaker or attendee.

PRO BONO ACTIVITIES

Since 2015 – Anti-Corruption School for Young Leaders, Founder and Lecturer

Since 2012 – Iravaban.net media outlet, Project Manager of the free online legal awareness and legal advice program implemented by the “LEGAL ALLIANCE” Law Firm

Since 2004 – Annual Scientific Conference for the Law Students “Advocacy: Current State and Prospects for its Development in the Republic of Armenia”, Founder

PUBLICATIONS

(Co)Author of more than 50 research pieces (reports, public and model policies, strategies, papers).

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Armenian (native), Russian (Excellent), English (Excellent).