Jean-Vasken ALYANAKIAN
- Mediator before the PARIS Court of Appeal and the main provincial courts
- Certified and approved by the PARIS Mediation and Arbitration Centre (CMAP), 2019
- Approved by the Centre National de Médiation des Avocats (CNMA)
- Conseil National des Barreaux (CNB)
- Approved by the Centre de Médiation du Barreau de PARIS – Association des Médiateurs Européens (AME)
- Approved by the Association Nationale des Médiateurs (ANM) – President of the jury and member of the jury for competitive exams and mediation certification since 2019 – Mediation trainer since 2022
- Member of the PARIS Bar, 2000
- Master’s degree in private law “judicial careers”, PARIS X NANTERRE, 1997
- Graduate of HEC 1993 (Grande Ecole – specializing in finance), HEC preparatory classes, baccalauréat série C
- Fluent English – Business English
- Delegate member of the Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- President of the French Association of Lawyers of Armenian origin – AFAJA
As a lawyer and mediator, Jean-Vasken ALYANAKIAN has 25 years’ experience in dispute resolution:
- governance crises or financial disputes involving directors and/or shareholders,
- legal or financial disputes between security holders/bondholders and issuers,
- challenging directors’ liability,
- termination of directors’ mandates and/or directors’ employment contracts,
- labor disputes and prevention of psycho-social risks,
- pre- or post-acquisition/investment/leverage-buyout-LBO disputes,
- complex contractual disputes, unfair competition situations.
In addition to his key role in resolving disputes as a lawyer or mediator, Jean-Vasken ALYANAKIAN has for many years advised management structures and the managers themselves in defining and negotiating their entry (and exit) conditions: type of governance, access to capital, special agreements, etc.
Jean-Vasken ALYANAKIAN has acted for many years, and now as strategic advisor to major decision-makers, in equity transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, private equity, share issues, etc.
Jean-Vasken ALYANAKIAN has in-depth knowledge of many business sectors and of the inner workings of companies and their decision-makers: digital businesses, biotech and other tech sectors, engineering, strategy consulting, financial services, distribution, fashion, luxury goods, etc.
Nota bene :
Jean-Vasken Alyanakian’s mediation activities are exclusive of his work as a lawyer, in terms of objectives, philosophy and, of course, techniques.
Above all, it is exclusive of any conflict of interest: Jean-Vasken Alyanakian only acts as Mediator if he has not already acted, in the past, as a lawyer for one of the parties to the mediation, whether in the context of a consultation, a transaction, litigation or mediation (as lawyer for the “mediated” party).
This exclusivity is unlimited in time.
The lawyer’s professional code of ethics requires him to anticipate and avoid conflicts of interest.
The mediator’s point of view:
“A few years ago, I decided to become a professional mediator because, after some fifteen years’ experience in business litigation, as a lawyer since 2000, I could no longer stand the idea of sometimes being a player in random negotiations, with no “quantum leap”, when a creative and rapid agreement would be possible.
In fact, it was the successful conclusion of negotiations on the eve of a hearing, after several years of litigation, that prompted me to turn to mediation as a way of speeding up the process and sparing the parties the stress, collateral damage, cost, duration and uncertainty of litigation.
I also wanted to have at my disposal binding methodological tools that would enable the parties to avoid breaking off their relationship when such a break-up did not necessarily correspond to the direction of history, as they had written it for many years… Avoiding the parties starting a lawsuit or enabling them to get out of one, avoiding crises and blockages of all kinds, through a creative agreement that they will find surprising compared to their initial expectations and fears, is an unspeakable pleasure for me as a mediator.
You have to dare to mediate, it’s not ungrateful to those who try!”