Fostering private-public partnership in strategic sectors was the main idea behind establishment of the Partnership Fund not so long ago. Developing, financing and investing in commercially viable business projects by a state and/or a state owned entities is increasingly seen as a main tool to implement strategically important as well as sizable investment projects in many countries, including Georgia. However, in Georgian reality private public partnership is a unique challenge from regulatory perspective as it involves extensive application of private as well as public laws and regulations.
Experience and expertise of our team in commercial investments and activities coupled with our ability to offer counsel on public law and regulation matters enables us to advise our PPP, sovereign wealth fund clients on their cross-border and domestic transactions from Georgian law perspective.
We represent our clients across a broad range of legal services, including:

Investments in funds and other investment vehicles
M&A transactions, including as co-investors, joint venture partners or alone
Financial restructuring and insolvency advice in relation to investments
Banking, securities and other regulatory matters
Project financings
Managing the impact of legislative change
Administrative disputes

Georgian public sector and regulation was subject to multiple reforms over last decade aiming to strengthen institutions. The challenges facing the global economy have supported the development of new public/business law regulations. In this context, to maintain market confidence while supporting economic growth, Georgia opted for strategies including liberalization, privatization, fostered public private partnership, supplementing traditional regulatory and procurement activities.
Our team members have extensive experience of work for and with public sector, which gave us not only deep and comprehensive knowledge of public regulations, but also the understanding and insight of the way they are applied, the ability particularly important when working on private/public transaction.
We offer clients our service to overcome the complex legal, regulatory and commercial challenges they face in the areas that matter most to them, including:

Project finance in regulated sectors
Electricity, Oil & Gas
Infrastructure development and Construction
Privatization
Litigation and arbitration
Initial Public Offerings and Sovereign Bond Issues
Securities law and regulations