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Valeri Sidamonidze

Valeri Sidamonidze is a Paralegal at BGI Legal. His duties include drafting and translating legal documents, preparing memoranda, due diligence review and assisting litigation team with research and filings.

Valeri is an Alumnus of the FLEX (Future Leaders Exchange) program with a strong interest in public speaking. Starting from school, he often took part in debate competitions and other extracurricular activities, achieving impressive results.

As a university student, he participated in the William C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. He won the first place and received the best speaker award at the national moot court competition on constitutional law and human rights, organized by the Free University of Tbilisi. He also took part in the Giorgi Margiani moot court on trafficking law, where he again received the best speaker award. Valeri is currently pursuing an LL.B. at the Free University of Tbilisi.

Valeri is Fluent in Georgian, English and Russian.

BGI Legal is ‘exceptional' in M&A, financing and real estate, and is especially prominent in the energy sector. Lasha Gogiberidze, whom clients regard as ‘the top lawyer in Georgia for banking, finance and capital markets transactions', and Sandro Bibilashvili handled a number of innovative regional energy projects and joint ventures, such as the Adjaristsqali hydropower project.

Legal 500 - 2017

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

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