Armen M Melkumyan

Practice Areas

aw Degree LLM from American University of Armenia, 2003; LLM from Vrije University of Amsterdam, 2008

Armen Melkumyan has 29-years work experience that includes consulting of international companies on broad range of issues.

Armen Melkumyan’s area of practices are -

Administrative Law, Anti-Trust & Competition Law, Banking & Financial

Organizations Law, Contract Law, Corporate Law, debt Recovery & Bankruptcy, Dispute

Resolution, Environmental Law, Insurance, International Business

Transactions, Labor & Employment, Property Rights &

Transactions, Securities Regulations, Taxation, Telecommunications.

Being senior legal adviser in local law firm, he has been advising a wide range of the largest international corporations in drafting shareholders agreements, contracts and legal servicing of investment projects, on the issues of project financing, corporate mergers and acquisitions etc. His practice also includes legal consultancy to a number of high profile local clients in different areas.

Combination of experience of legal adviser in international project and work experience in law firm allows him to understand deeply commercial peculiarity of clients business and to satisfy needs of clients on high professional level.

Clients

Major Armenian and foreign mining companies, such as Lydian Armenia (owned by Lydian International Ltd.) and Dundee Precocious Metals Inc. (Canada), are among the long-standing clients Fidelity Consulting serves. In providing the legal services members of Fidelity Consulting team have worked closely with international financial corporation’s such us IFC and EBRD and cooperates with Norton Rose Fulbright, STIKEMAN ELLIOTT LLP; Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP law firms.

Languages Spoken

English; Armenian; Russian

Work Highlights

Clients highlight him "He is very approachable and will work to provide answers as quickly as needed”. “He is well recognized for his experience in the mining and financial sectors”.

Clients highlight him “Armen Melkumyan of Fidelity Consulting CJSC has notable expertise in the mining sector. He often acts for UK and Armenian companies in commercial, project finance and litigious mandates”.

Clients highlight him Armen Melkumyan is the managing partner at Fidelity Consulting CJSC, which has a focus on mining work, in particular matters concerning the extraction of gold and copper. Work highlights included advising Eurasian Development Bank on a number of major financing projects; and advising Canadian group Dundee Precious Metals and other client on option, shareholder and royalty agreements relating to their joint venture with local mining companies for exploration and development activities.