Roupen Avsharian is the current General Counsel of Investment Dar Company, a Kuwaiti conglomerate with investments in the Middle East, GCC Area, and the UK.
He was a partner at Tribonian Law Advisors with offices in Beirut, Dubai and Riyadh.
His practice focuses on multi-jurisdictional restructurings, corporate re-organizations and providing general counsel services to regulated and unregulated entities. Mr. Avsharian has a Master of Arts degree in National Security Studies with emphasis on the Middle East from the American Military University at Charles-town, West Virginia, USA (2004) and holds a Juries Doctor degree from Western State University College of Law at Fullerton, California, USA (1996).

Mr. Avsharian has served as a Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County for several years and has spent more than 15 years providing legal services in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. He has been featured in several publications, including the Comparative Survey of Corporate Governance in the Gulf Cooperation Council (September 2006),published by the Institute of International Finance (Washington, D.C.) & Hawkamah Corporate Governance Institute (Dubai, UAE),

Journal of the British Business Forum (2006) and Arab-British Business Fortnightly Bulletin (2007) in Kuwait.
He is the author of On the Record: Armenian Deputies in the Lebanese Parliaments, Volume I (1922-1972) and Volume II (1972-2017). Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2017. He has also published professional articles including: “Armenian MPs throughout the Lebanese Parliaments: An assessment from within.” Antranig Dakessian, Ed., Armenians of Lebanon (II): Proceedings of the Conference (14-16 May 2014). Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2017, pp.93-128; and “The Ta’ef Agreement and the Lebanese-Armenians.” Aida Boudjikanian, Ed., Armenians of Lebanon: From Past Princesses and Refugees to Present-Day Community. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2009, pp.387-409.

Mr. Avsharian is a member of the National Security Committee of the Section on International Law of the American Bar Association and a member of the Middle East Studies Association. He has participated and presented several research papers at academic symposiums on Middle Eastern issues in different countries.