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Van Z. Krikorian joined Global Gold Corporation in 2003 and is responsible for negotiating all contracts and overseeing all international operating issues for the international gold mining development and exploration company. Previously Mr. Krikorian was a partner in the New York office of Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz and until 1998 practiced with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler. He has represented Global Gold Corporation as outside counsel since 1995.
Mr. Krikorian is an accomplished international attorney who has done extensive work in strategic planning structuring investments negotiating agreements and resolving disputes for businesses operating overseas primarily in the Central Asian and Transcaucasus Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Ukraine Russia the Middle East and the Caribbean. These projects include energy transportation agribusiness banking government regulation trade mining non-profit and investment fund matters.
He is a widely-published and recognized authority on the legal political and economic developments in the former Soviet Union. Mr. Krikorian is a founding member of the Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission and was appointed and served as a member of the US delegation to the Moscow CSCE meetings of 1991 during the first Bush Administration. In 1992 he served as Deputy Representative and Counselor to the United Nations for the newly independent Republic of Armenia. Additionally he has testified before Congress has participated in numerous international conferences and is a frequent public speaker. In 2005 he was appointed to the International Council of George Washington University and he is an adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University Law School.
Mr. Krikorian is also a former Director of Government and Legal Affairs for the Armenian Assembly of America in Washington and has served as chairman of the U.S.-Armenian Business Council and Chairman of the Armenian Assembly’s Board of Directors. He is also involved with several charities including the Armenian Assembly on whose board he sits.
He is a member of the American Bar Association the Armenian Bar Association the New York Bar the District of Columbia Bar and the Vermont Bar Association (Professional Responsibility Committee). He is also admitted to practice in the United States Court of International Trade and the United States Tax Court.
Mr. Krikorian received his B.A. in 1981 from George Washington University and his J.D. in 1984 from Georgetown University Law Center. In the summer of 1980 he studied at the Armenian Seminary in Bikfaya Lebanon. He resides with his wife Priscilla who is also an attorney and their four children in Rye New York. | 