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Mr Giorgi Batlidze

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Position

Partner

Career

Giorgi Batlidze has been engaged in the legal practice since 2005. He joined BLC in 2008 and was promoted to a partnership in 2012. His practice areas include corporate law, M&A, restructuring, insolvency and finance law, project financing and capital markets. Giorgi is also involved in litigation and commercial arbitration.

Giorgi has experience of acting as an arbitrator on various commercial disputes. He was a lead partner in various significant corporate and M&A transactions and several large-scale financing and capital markets projects. Giorgi is actively engaged in policy studies and legal drafting.

Prior to joining BLC, Giorgi served as paralegal in a law firm in Göttingen (Germany) and as an international legal advisor to a leading Georgian construction company.

Giorgi Batlidze has been actively involved in the legislative drafting process. He is member of the working group for corporate law reform, insolvency law reform, Civil Procedures Code, etc. Giorgi is also co-author of new edition of Civil Law Commentary (law of damages).

Languages

Georgian, English, German, Russian

Memberships

Apart from his extensive legal practice, Giorgi is a member of the Board of Directors of German Business Association (DWV), Georgian Association of Arbitrators (GAA) and Co-Founder and Member of the Board of German International School Tbilisi (DIST).

Education

• LL.M. Degree in Corporate and Civil Law from Göttingen University (2007);
• Full course of studies of law at the Faculty of Law of Göttingen University (2001-2005);
• Bachelors Degree, Tbilisi State University (2005);
• Admitted to Georgian Bar;
• Member of ICC (Paris) Arbitration and ADR Committee;