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BGI Legal stands out in IFLR1000 2024-25 edition

BGI Legal continues to stand out in the latest results released by IFLR for their 2024/5 edition.

We are once again ranked Tier 1 for both practice areas covered by the directory in Georgia – Financial & Corporate and Project Development. IFLR1000 remains the only international legal market guide dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers exclusively on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.

Based on extensive research, client feedback and peer reviews the new rankings reflect our firm's depth and breadth of experience and reputation in advising clients on complex and innovative transactions and disputes in the financial and corporate sectors.

The legal directory, in addition, has awarded Partner Lasha Gogiberidze the coveted ‘Leading Lawyer - Market Leader’ designation whilst fellow Partners Zaza Bibilashvili, Sandro Bibilashvili, Unana Gogokhia and Tamara Tevdoradze win the ‘Highly Regarded Leading Lawyers’ rating. 

Unana and Tamara are also singled out as “Women Leaders”. This is an elite ranking category reserved for the most prominent women lawyers across the world working in the areas of law IFLR1000 researches. 

Significantly, no other law firm in Georgia has received as many rankings (nine firm and lawyer ratings in total) as BGI Legal in the new IFLR guide. 

For more information on our rankings please click here.

The four-partner team at BGI Legal provides a ‘responsive, proactive and solution-oriented service to a wide range of international corporates both directly and on a referral basis from major international law firms; it has built a strong reputation acting for investors and lenders on many of the country s largest projects. The ‘excellent Lasha Gogiberidze has led the team s work in several major energy mandates, including advising an Asian investor on a hydropower project. Gogiberidze is also regularly involved in financing work, including inter-bank lending, regulatory lending (to comply with capital adequacy requirements) and capital markets work, where Unana Gogokhia is also establishing a strong reputation.

Legal 500 - 2016

Zaza Bibilashvili is able to suggest winning strategies and is active across a range of contentious and non-contentious work, including real estate and intellectual property matters. Previous comments include: BGI Legal fields ‘a team of true professionals with good knowledge of law and a proper understanding of business needs`. It provides full-service support to leading multinational and Georgian clients, handling general legal matters alongside more complex financing, M&A, dispute resolution and capital markets mandates.

Legal 500 - 2016

Zaza Bibilashvili is a well-known and highly regarded figure in the Georgian legal market. One of the founding partners of the firm, he oversees projects and is a key contact for clients. Lasha Gogiberidze has been called "one of the leading lawyers in Georgia" and "a central person not just in capital markets, but in the legal market in general." Considered an expert in capital markets and project finance work, particularly in the energy sphere, he is highly respected by his peers, who say: "He`s among the top lawyers who shaped the legal market."

Chambers Global - 2016