მთავარი

Expertise. Experience. Efficiency.

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.

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

Legal director Unana Gogokhia focuses on financial transactions, and stands out for her experience of capital markets and derivatives. Clients appreciate her ability to "look at the issue very scrupulously and bring up points in the transaction that none of the other parties spotted." Sandro Bibilashvili is increasingly recognised in the market. He is involved in some of the firm's biggest project finance mandates and has recently been active working on energy projects. Counsel Tamara Tevdoradze enters the rankings on the back of positive praise. "She is very reliable, accurate and punctual, thinks in a very logical way and has very strong arguments," a client says

Chambers Global - 2017

BGI is one of Georgia's leading firms in all areas of corporate law and in energy and infrastructure has acted on key projects in the oil and gas, energy, transport infrastructure areas. Previous comments have included: "Very good law firm for this jurisdiction...very knowledgeable, they get the job done on time and on budget...they are very professional and good lawyers". Thanks for universal praise from competitors and clients alike, BGI sits comfortably in the top tier... BGI is client-focused and solution-oriented... [with] excellent local counsel, not just for Georgian standards, but by international standards... [A major international client says:] "In terms of local law firms... I have a strong preference for BGI."

IFLR1000 - 2017