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Kourosh Majdzadeh

Work Department

Shipping, Projects, Corporate & Commercial

Position

Senior Associate - Legal Internship Program Coordinator

Career

Dr Majdzadeh,  advises domestic and foreign clients on disputes, corporate, contract and commercial matters, with a specialty in maritime and transport law. He has previously practiced at a number of local law firms for some eight years including a tier-1 law firm ranked by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners in Tehran.

Dr Majdzadeh completed an internship at UNCITRAL in Vienna, where he worked on development of a legal toolkit facilitating accession by member states to the Rotterdam Rules. He has also worked with the Judiciary Institute's Office of Technical Relations and Cooperation as a research associate. He has also contributed to Chambers & Partners "Doing Business in Iran" guide of 2020, the World Bank Group "Doing Business" report of 2021, and OneTrust 2020 guide on "Data Protection in Iran's Financial Sector".

Memberships

Admitted to the Iran Central Bar Association

Education

PhD in Maritime Law from the University of Manchester, UK LLM in International Business & Commercial law from the University of Manchester, UK Bachelor of laws from the University of Tehran, Iran

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