Matiaszek to head commercial law project (07/30/00)

Matiaszek to head commercial law project

KYIV - Petro Matiaszek on August 1, will begin serving as director of a new, multi-year project to establish a commercial law center in Ukraine with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The Washington-based firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu will implement the USAID contract to establish the new center at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Among the other Ukrainian partners in this project are the Law Sciences Academy of Ukraine and the Yaroslav Mudriy National Law Academy while the American partners include the International Law Institute and the American Bar Association.

The five-year project is designed to facilitate commercial law reform in Ukraine in three primary areas: legislative drafting support; training for public and private lawyers, judges and other legal experts; and an outreach component to promote a better understanding of legal reform in Ukraine.

Mr. Matiaszek, who was born in the United States and completed his legal studies in New York City, has resided and worked in Kyiv for the past six years. His most recent position has been with the Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperation Initiative, a special USAID-funded project designed to promote trilateral cooperation in small business development and local government and macroeconomic reform.

By helping to expand and deepen state-to-state as well as society-to-society ties between Poland and Ukraine, PAUCI strives to accelerate Ukraine's transition toward a market economy and a stable democracy, and also to create a mechanism for both countries to benefit from shared experiences.

Mr. Matiaszek has also managed other projects in Ukraine, including the Council of Advisors to the Parliament of Ukraine, the Rule of Law Consortium and the Legal Unit of the British Know-How Fund.

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