
Nino Tatoshvili
Lawyer & Managing Partner
Corporate, commercial and intellectual-property matters for businesses
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BusinessLawyers.ge is a specialist corporate and business law platform in Tbilisi. Our business lawyers advise foreign investors entering Georgia, entrepreneurs creating new companies and established Georgian businesses managing contracts, employees, shareholders, regulation, transactions and disputes.
A company may first need a lawyer for formation or market entry. As it grows, the legal work becomes broader: customers, suppliers, banking relationships, licenses, intellectual property, employment and governance require continuing attention. Our corporate lawyers connect those stages so that legal documents support the commercial decision rather than delay it.
Structure ownership, director authority, shareholder decisions and governance for Georgian companies and international groups.
Coordinate confidentiality, legal due diligence, transaction documents, corporate approvals, closing and post-closing implementation.
Draft and negotiate supply, services, distribution, software, licensing, lease and cross-border commercial agreements.
Map licensing, AML/KYC, data, consumer and sector rules into practical controls, responsibilities and evidence.
Give directors a consistent outside legal resource for contracts, governance, employment, compliance and management decisions.
Assess claims and evidence early, protect urgent positions and plan negotiation, litigation, arbitration and enforcement.
Defend companies, directors, public officials and contractors in financial, corruption, procurement and business-crime investigations.
One legal team across the company lifecycle.
Move through the cards to see each legal pictogram and practice image. The same matter can connect corporate authority, contracts, compliance and dispute planning, so the service scope is defined around the business decision rather than an isolated document.
Our corporate lawyers support both foreign investors entering Georgia and companies already operating here. That distinction shapes the service: incorporation is a beginning, not the end of business legal work.

A foreign investor may need to compare a Georgian LLC, branch, joint venture or acquisition. Our business lawyers examine ownership, management, regulatory permissions, contracts, property, employment and banking preparation before capital is committed. Documents issued abroad, powers of attorney and signing authority are planned early so that registration and closing timetables remain realistic.
Company formation is treated as legal infrastructure. We address charter terms, shareholder relationships, director authority and post-registration obligations instead of limiting the work to a registry filing.
Foreign Investment AdviceAn established Georgian company faces recurring legal decisions: a key customer contract, a senior employee departure, a shareholder approval, a license condition, a data issue, a supplier default or a planned investment. These matters benefit from counsel who already understands the ownership, documents and operating model.
Ongoing legal counsel offers management a proportionate alternative to a full-time internal lawyer. The arrangement can cover day-to-day questions and defined projects while transactions and disputes are scoped separately.
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The useful output of corporate legal advice is not a longer document. It is a clearer decision, a workable allocation of risk and an implementation path that management can follow.
Our business lawyers begin by identifying the business objective, the parties, the intended timing and the point at which a decision becomes difficult to reverse. A company formation, shareholder arrangement, commercial agreement, financing, acquisition or dispute each has a different risk profile. Understanding the commercial outcome first allows the legal analysis to focus on the terms, approvals and evidence that matter most.
We then review the available corporate records, draft documents, correspondence and operational facts. Where information is incomplete, the advice records the assumption instead of treating it as confirmed. This approach is especially important for foreign investors coordinating Georgian legal work with advisers, finance teams and decision-makers in other jurisdictions. It gives every participant a reliable view of what has been checked, what remains open and who must act next.
For a transaction, the work may move from a term sheet and due diligence to negotiation, corporate approvals, signing, closing and post-closing actions. For ongoing corporate counsel, the sequence is shorter and recurring: management raises an issue, the lawyer establishes the facts, explains options and prepares the required document or response. In both cases, practical deadlines, signing authority and dependencies are tracked alongside the legal position.
Clarify the commercial result, parties, value, timetable, jurisdiction and decision-makers before drafting begins.
Review authority, ownership, regulation, contracts, employment, data, intellectual property, payment and enforcement questions in proportion to the matter.
Prepare the agreement, resolution, filing or action plan, coordinate signatures and record the obligations that continue after completion.
International business frequently involves a Georgian company, overseas shareholders, documents executed abroad, foreign-law agreements and counterparties with their own advisers. Our corporate lawyers can define the Georgian workstream, explain local corporate and regulatory requirements in business English and coordinate the documents needed for registration, a transaction or continuing operations. Where another jurisdiction or specialist discipline is involved, that boundary is identified so the client can obtain the appropriate advice.
The result is a legal record that management can use: issues are prioritised, responsibilities are visible and key decisions are documented. That helps reduce avoidable delay without pretending that a regulator, bank, registry, counterparty or court is under the firm’s control.
Recurring legal support becomes more efficient when counsel understands the company’s ownership, governance, contract standards, products, employees and risk tolerance. Instead of beginning from zero each time, ongoing counsel can maintain context and identify when a routine request has wider implications for shareholders, licensing, privacy, intellectual property or future investment.
Businesses may use this support for contract review, board and shareholder decisions, negotiations, employment questions, compliance projects and early dispute assessment. Material transactions and litigation can still be separately scoped. The model gives founders, directors and in-house teams access to business lawyers in Tbilisi while keeping the level of support proportionate to current needs.
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View confirmed profileDirect answers help directors and investors understand when legal review should happen. The answer for a specific company depends on its documents, activity and current Georgian law.

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Ownership, management, documents and post-registration decisions beyond the registry filing.
A useful first inquiry identifies the Georgian entity or proposed investment, the commercial objective, relevant parties, decision date and documents already available. This allows conflict and scope checks before confidential detail is exchanged.
For a contract, send the current draft, proposal and the points the business cannot accept. For a transaction, identify buyer, seller, target, intended structure, funding and timetable. For a corporate matter, provide the current registry extract, charter and relevant decisions. For a dispute, preserve the signed agreement, correspondence, performance evidence, notices and a dated chronology.
Legal advice should then distinguish confirmed facts from assumptions, identify the current public source and explain what management must decide. Where tax, accounting, technical or foreign-law input is needed, the responsible adviser should be named. The final work product should state approvals, documents, signatories, conditions, deadlines and post-completion obligations so the legal answer can be implemented and audited.
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