Gvinadze & Partners LLC

Managing Partner: Nick Gvinadze

Number of Partners & Senior Counsels: 5

Number of Lawyers: 13

Gvinadze & Partners is a leading Georgian business law firm re-launched in 2010 after our separation from what used to be DLA Piper Gvinadze & Partners. With our predecessor law firms Georgian Consulting Group (GCG Law Office), Ernst & Young Legal (EY Law Georgia), Gvinadze & Partners LP and then most recently DLA Piper Gvinadze & Partners LP, we have a long and successful history of serving and promoting inward investment in Georgia, and are widely recognized as leaders in the Georgian legal services market. In this crucial post-independence period of Georgia’s development, we have represented the lion’s share of truly diverse international clientele, ranging from international NGOs and diplomatic missions to industrial giants, multilateral lending institutions and multi-billion oil and gas consortia. Our 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 three decades. We are equally well-known for our 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.

Perhaps the most telling example of our profound expertise in virtually every area of business law is our role as lead Georgian legal counsel throughout the planning, negotiation and implementation of all the major oil and gas pipeline projects transiting 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. Our 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, labor, permitting and contractual matters, and finally successful resolution of hundreds of compensation, environmental and right of way disputes in the Georgian Courts.

Throughout our various name changes and reincarnations since the early 1990’s, our core value and the key element to our success has been the unparalleled and uncompromised quality of our legal work. Indeed, ever since the early days of our legacy firm GCG Law Office, our law practice has been known as the highest quality legal service provider in Georgia. This well-deserved reputation for excellence in virtually every area of business law has been not just about meticulous attention to detail and flawless service, but also about user-friendly, pragmatic advice and real solutions making real difference to our clients in their day-to-day operations. We are proud that in this most difficult transitional period we have been at the forefronts of the development of Georgia’s newly born legal profession, and have aspired to the highest standards of professional ethics with the clients and our peers alike.

• Corporate
• Banking and Finance
• Energyand Infrastructure
• Real Estate and Construction
• Tax and Customs
• Dispute Resolution
• Privatizations and Regulatory Compliance
• Intellectual Property and Employment
• White Collar Crime

As most of our work contains an international component, we extensively collaborate with leading national and international law firms in many other jurisdictions. A representative sample of our distinguished client base who we have assisted in Georgia over the years includes major international organizations andmultinational corporations such as:

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation(OPIC)
• Asian Development Bank(ADB)
• International Financial Corporation (IFC)
• The World Bank
• China Development Bank (CDB)
• Commerzbank AG
• Raiffeisen Bank
• Air BP
• Marriott International
• Avon Cosmetics
• BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd
• British American Tobacco
• Amundi
• Deutsche Bahn AG (DB International GmbH)
• Ferrero Group
• HeidelbergCement Caucasus
• Toyota Tsusho Corporation
• InterContinental Hotels Group
• LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
• H&M Hennes & Mauritz Georgia
• British Airways (BA)
• LOT Polish Airlines
• Lufthansa AG
• MasterCard
• Nestlé S.A.
• OTIS Lift/United Technologies Corporation
• RCI Europe
• Robert Bosch GmbH
• Servier Monde
• Société Générale
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
• The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
• The European Broadcasting Union(EBU)
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
• Total (BTC) Limited
• Acer Inc.
• IREX
• Mitsubishi Corporation
• Pfizer Inc.
• Novartis International AG
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Samsung
• Spie Capag Petrofac International
• Monster Energy
• Wood Group
• Starwood Hotels Group
• IKEA
• Tag Heuer
• Hublot S.A.
• CLS Rémy Cointreau
• Cisco Systems
• Maersk
• Telia-Sonera