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Gvinadze & Partners LLC Offices
44 LESELIDZE STREET
TBILISI 0105
Georgia
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Gvinadze & Partners LLC > The Legal 500 Rankings
Dispute resolution Tier 1
The ‘commercial, pragmatic’ and ‘effective’ team at Gvinadze & Partners LLC is noted for its ‘very thorough research’. Headed by ‘excellent communicator’, Nick Gvinadze, the team’s offering spans investment, employment, IP and financial services-related litigation in addition to administrative disputes and general corporate and commercial proceedings. A plethora of commercial arbitration matters and cross-border cases form the bulk of the the caseload, with Zakaria Shvelidze also regularly leading on matters.
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Testimonials
‘Very thorough, carry out all required research on the issue and provide recommendations based on this research. Very professional and I feel you can rely on their recommendations and judgement.’
‘We mainly deal with the partner, Nick Gvinadze, who is very professional, an excellent communicator and always makes himself available.’
‘They provide erudite, effective, quick and easy to understand advice in a difficult market and complex sectors. In short, we can trust them to do great job.’
‘Commercial, pragmatic, but legally spot on.’
‘Nick Gvinadze – commercial, solutions-orientated, great understanding of the local market.’
Key clients
British American Tobacco
Boies, Schiller & Flexner (UK) LLP
Cushman & Wakefield (Veritas Brown Caucasus LLC)
Emerging Markets Advisory Corporation (EMAC) and its Dutch Cooperatives
HeidelbergCement Caucasus Ltd
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
Mishcon de Reya Solicitors
Brick Court Chambers
Multivac Export AG
Nestlé Georgia
San Diego State University (SDSU)
Sturgeon Capital Ltd / Anglo-Georgian Alpine Resorts (AGAR)
Wilhelmsen Group (Barwil Georgia)
Hublot S.A.
Big Dutchman GmbH
Embassy of Switzerland to Georgia
ZTE Corporation
AHR Architects
iC consulenten Ziviltechniker GesmbH
Piasten GmbH
Amorim
Real estate and construction (and projects) Tier 1
Nick Gvinadze’s team at Gvinadze & Partners LLC is a popular choice for construction, real estate litigation, administrative and corporate real estate matters. It has specialist knowledge of the hotel and hospitality sector and operates and frequently advises on residential, data centres and industrial projects. Sophie Panjikidze is a key member of the team, which also counts projects in the infrastructure and energy space among its core areas of focus.
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Key clients
Intercontinental Hotels Group
AHR Architects
DAR Building
iC consulenten Ziviltechniker GesmbH
AdvanSys – Technologies & People
The Norwegian Embassy in Tbilisi / The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
aMDL
Amtel Investment Holdings
Baltvesta/Georgian Retail Centers LLC
Veritas Brown Caucasus LLC (Cushman & Wakefield)
RCI Europe
San Diego State University (SDSU)
Sturgeon Capital Ltd and Anglo-Georgian Alpine Resorts (AGAR)
Dasta Records Management
Emerging Markets Advisory Corporation (EMAC) and its Dutch Cooperatives
Embassy of Switzerland to Georgia
EnerMech Limited
Banking and finance Tier 2
Gvinadze & Partners LLC acts for clients, including MasterCard, EBRD and Asian Development Bank, on project and general finance, regulatory, policy-based loans and fintech matters, as well as dispute resolution, among other areas. The experienced Nick Gvinadze heads the department, which routinely acts as local counsel to international law firms and barristers and includes the highly rated Sophie Panjikidze.
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Testimonials
‘Gvinadze & Partners is one of the best local firms I worked with. The firm is experienced in financing documentation, dedicated and responsive. I was particularly impressed with their high quality work and diligence.’
‘The team is very competent and has great communication skills.’
‘The firm has exceptional knowledge and reputation specifically in project finance issues.’.
‘The main lawyers I worked with are Nick Gvinadze, Sophie Panjikidze and Mariam Metreveli. The team is legally strong and professional, and they provide clear advice and great support. Nick is very smart and experienced. Sophie is a very smart, diligent and hard working lawyer, and did a flawless job in assisting us in closing the transaction.’
‘We mainly worked with Sophie Panjikidze and Mariam Metreveli. They delivered on their assignment timely, produced high level output and assisted EBRD in all necessary procedures, that lead to successful close of the transaction we worked on.’
‘Ms. Panjikidze is a high class professional, with exceptional knowledge and responsibility. She is engaged in the development of the GSE Corporatization process.’
Key clients
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
MFO Credit Plus Georgia JSC
Quilam Capital
WB21 Pte.
Amundi
MasterCard
Finstar Financial Group / 4Finance
INOKS Capital SA
Dreymoor Fertilizers Overseas Pte. Ltd.
VisionFund International
Baltvesta/Georgian Retail Centers LLC
Commercial, corporate and M&A Tier 2
Key strengths of the ‘very experienced and highly responsive’ team at Gvinadze & Partners LLC include M&A, restructuring, incorporation, IP matters and employment law. The oil and gas sector is an area of particular strength with the team frequently handling related projects and offtake agreements. Nick Gvinadze heads the department and is highly experienced on the cross-border front; his team also includes Sophie Panjikidze who handles competition, contracts and insurance-related instructions, among other matters.
Practice head(s):
Testimonials
‘The team is very experienced and highly responsive. They provide both technical and practical advice which is a great value add to our clients.’
‘The individuals are both friendly and professional in their approach.’
Key clients
Amtel Investment Holdings
Baltvesta/Georgian Retail Centers LLC
EnerMech Limited
Monster Energy
Nestlé
OTIS Lift LLC/United Technologies Corporation
Dasta Records Management
Mastercard
Forever Living Products International
RCI Europe
Robert Bosch
San Diego State University (SDSU)
Dreymoor Fertilizers Overseas Pte. Ltd.
Reed Smith LLP / The World Bank
H&M Hennes & Mauritz Georgia
DLA Piper Russia/ Intercontinental Hotels Group
The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)
PricewaterhouseCoopers SA Geneva Office
Covington & Burling LLP/Tricida
Emerging Markets Advisory Corporation (EMAC) and its Dutch Cooperatives
NextClinics International GmbH
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Liberty Aviation International
Silkeveien Invest Gruppen SA
Global Benefits Group
British Embassy
Norwegian Embassy
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Middle East LLP / Mitsubishi Electric
Gvinadze & Partners LLC > Firm Profile
The firm: Gvinadze & Partners is a leading Georgian business law firm with a long and successful history of serving inward investment in Georgia. In this crucial post-independence period of Georgia’s development, the firm has represented the lion’s share of a truly diverse international clientele, ranging from international NGOs and diplomatic missions to industrial giants, multilateral lending institutions and multi-billion oil and gas consortia. The firm’s experience is equally diverse and all-inclusive, ranging from start up guidance and incorporation of numerous investment vehicles to representation in some of the most noteworthy and complicated projects of the region in the past two decades. Gvinadze & Partners is equally well-known for its dispute resolution expertise, having acted in some of the highest profile disputes in the Georgian courts as well as in international arbitration, and having provided quality support to many cross-border arbitration and litigation matters involving Georgian law, including successful enforcement of a number of foreign arbitral awards in Georgia.
Throughout the firm’s various name changes and reincarnations since the early 1990s, its core value and the key element to its success has been the unparalleled and uncompromised quality of the firm’s legal work. Indeed, ever since the early days of Gvinadze & Partners’ legacy firm GCG Law Office, its law practice has been known as the highest quality legal service provider in Georgia. The firm is proud that in a difficult transitional period it has been at the forefronts of the development of Georgia’s newly born legal profession, and has aspired to the highest standards of professional ethics with the clients and peers alike.
Areas of practice: Gvinadze & Partners prides itself on over two decades of extensive private practice experience in all key areas of business law, such as corporate and M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, energy and infrastructure, real estate and construction, tax and customs, dispute resolution, intellectual property, employment and competition. The firm is led by three partners and is supported by highly experienced counsel and associates.
Perhaps the most telling example of the firm’s profound expertise in virtually every area of business law is its role as lead Georgian legal counsel throughout the planning, negotiation and implementation of all the major oil and gas pipeline projects in transit through Georgia – the Baku-Supsa, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), and South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) projects, which have put Georgia firmly on the energy map of Europe and assured its strategic place as the nexus of the modern silk road. The firm’s 15 years of intensive work on these projects of the century has involved the widest possible spectrum of commercial law practice, including drafting, negotiation and implementation of complex intergovernmental and host government agreements, legislative drafting, representation in multi-billion secured syndicated financing, elaboration, documentation and implementation of detailed land acquisition strategies, detailed advice on a myriad of real property, tax and customs, environmental, labour, permitting and contractual matters, and finally successful resolution of hundreds of compensation, environmental and right of way disputes in the Georgian courts.
Nick Gvinadze (managing partner) with over two decades of busy private practice, Nick has accumulated abundant experience in the whole spectrum of both Georgian and cross-border commercial law, with particular focus on energy, infrastructure, tax and dispute resolution. Nick has advised on a number of key foreign investment projects in Georgia, including major oil and gas transportation projects in the Caspian region, and has acted in a number of higher profile proceedings in the Georgian courts as well as in international arbitration.
Sophie Panjikidze (partner) having started with the legacy firm Georgian Consulting Group (GCG Law Office) back in 2002, Sophie has been responsible for successful incorporation, reorganisation and winding up of many dozens of foreign investment vehicles, and has advised on a number of complex cross-border corporate and finance transactions as well as major privatisation matters. With nearly 15 years of extensive private practice experience, Sophie has acquired valuable expertise in corporate, banking and finance, contracts, real estate, labour, insurance, IP and competition law matters, and has also been instrumental in supporting the firm’s extensive litigation practice with important background research and due diligence.
Zakaria Shvelidze (partner) Zakaria’s practice encompasses a wide area of civil and administrative law and dispute resolution, with particular expertise in energy and infrastructure, construction contracts and permitting, land and real estate, tax and labour matters. With nearly a decade at the firm, Zakaria has advised and represented the interests of numerous foreign investors in Georgia. In addition to his broad transactional experience, Zakaria is an experienced dispute resolution lawyer with an impressive track record of successfully completed matters in Georgian courts as well as in numerous administrative proceedings in front of various governments and municipal agencies of Georgia.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Corporate M&A | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Corporate M&A | Sophie Panjikidze | ||
Banking and finance | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Banking and finance | Sophie Panjikidze | ||
Energy and infrastructure | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Energy and infrastructure | Zakaria Shvelidze | ||
Real estate and construction | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Real estate and construction | Zakaria Shvelidze | ||
Tax and customs | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Tax and customs | Zakaria Shvelidze | ||
Dispute resolution | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Dispute resolution | Zakaria Shvelidze | ||
Privatisations and regulatory compliance | Sophie Panjikidze | ||
Privatisations and regulatory compliance | Zakaria Shvelidze | ||
ntellectual property | Nick Gvinadze | ||
ntellectual property | Sophie Panjikidze | ||
Employment | Sophie Panjikidze | ||
Employment | Zakaria Shvelidze | ||
Antitrust | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Antitrust | Sophie Panjikidze | ||
Capital markets | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Capital markets | Sophie Panjikidze | ||
Restructuring and insolvency | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Restructuring and insolvency | Sophie Panjikidze | ||
Private equity | Nick Gvinadze | ||
Private equity | Sophie Panjikidze |
Lawyer Profiles
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Mr Nick Gvinadze | Managing Partner | View Profile |
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Sophie Panjikidze | Partner | View Profile |
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Zakaria Shvelidze | Partner | View Profile |