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LSA Law Firm also represents the interests of foreign legal entities both in the extrajudicial stage of dispute resolution and in Armenian courts. Once again, a petition for the recognition and enforcement of a foreign court decision was returned two or more times by the Civil Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction due to formal and technical requirements related to the content of documents issued by foreign state authorities. By appealing the decision of the Civil Court of First Instance to return the petition through the appellate procedure, success was ultimately achieved, and the decision to return the petition…

Knowledge of the law, its practical application, and awareness of the approaches taken by administrative bodies are among the key factors for business success. With this goal in mind, the lawyers of LSA law firm recently organized a legal seminar for members of the Mantashyants Business Club. The seminar covered a range of topics, including...

Fraud, as a type of criminal activity, has become a global issue, causing significant financial and legal damages to numerous individuals and organizations every year. Whether fraud occurs online, in the business sector, financial transactions, or everyday life, victims often find themselves in a difficult situation, unsure of how to restore their rights.

Thanks to the competent and meticulous work of lawyers Tatevik Malkhasyan and Arsen Sardaryan, the RA Civil Court of Appeals declared null and void the results of the rector's election of the "National Polytechnic University of Armenia" foundation, which took place on March 1, 2021 (second round on March 15). As a consequence, the court also invalidated RA Government Decision No. 703-A of May 3, 2021, which had confirmed the election results of the rector of the "National Polytechnic University of Armenia" foundation.

Today, D.H., a client of the "LSA" Law Firm (lawyer Edgar Ayvazyan) who had been convicted of murder, was granted early conditional release and freed from the courtroom.

In the modern digital age, the spread and development of information technologies have a significant impact on our daily lives. The widespread use of the internet, social media, online banking services, email, and other digital platforms has made personal data protection a priority issue. Cybersecurity refers to the methods, technologies, and practices aimed at protecting digital information from cyberattacks, data breaches, and unauthorized access.

In the criminal case No. ED1/1267/01/24, examined in the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan, our office’s attorney, Edgar Ayvazyan, represented the defendant N.H., who had been charged under Article 452, Part 4, Clause 2 of the Criminal Code of Armenia for committing a serious crime—namely, using violence against a police officer in order to interfere with their official duties.

On December 17, 2024, the Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction of the First Instance of Yerevan, having considered the investigator’s motion to reaffirm the detention imposed on A. Gh., the client of our office’s attorneys, Arsen Sardaryan and Edgar Ayvazyan, who is accused of serious and particularly serious crimes, rejected the motion and applied an alternative preventive measure, including house arrest.

As we previously reported, between June and November 2024, four foreign nationals involved in the same criminal proceedings approached our office at different times. The detention imposed on all of them as a preventive measure was replaced with an alternative measure within days of our lawyers taking over their defense. (https://www.lsa.am/a-series-of-victories-for-lsa-detention-of-4-defendants-replaced-by-alternative-preventive-measures/)

In a criminal proceeding initiated by the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia, the client of our office’s attorneys Andranik Mnatsakanyan and Edgar Ayvazyan, E.B., was charged under Article 435, Part 3, Point 3 of the RA Criminal Code for a particularly grave crime, namely receiving a particularly large bribe by a group of officials. Thanks to the correctly chosen defense strategy and the objective approach demonstrated by the investigator conducting the preliminary investigation and the supervising prosecutor, the detention applied as a preventive measure against the accused was lifted, and a restriction on leaving the country was imposed…