BLC Law Office is a full-service Georgian firm established in 2000. It has offices in Tbilisi and Butami.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm provides full-legal services across all practice area, including banking and finance, capital markets: debt and equity, corporate and M&A. It has experience working with institutional investors, foreign and local companies and banks on significant multi-million local and cross-border deals.
It has a demonstrated expertise in handling a broad range of transactions and procedures in financial and corporate as well as in various projects in a long list of industries.
Among its attorneys there are people educated in Georgian law as well as in US and EU laws.
Key clients
In financial and corporate work, it advises BP, SOCAR, Airbnb, Tik-Tok, Uber, Pepsi bottlers in Georgia, Wizz Air, Philip Morris, Global Benefits Georgia, and DHL.
In project development, it works with EDF France, Enka Insaat, Clean Energy, Tata Group, Calik Energy, Pace Group, Scatec Solar ASA, Wings & Freeman Capital, Anagi Development, Elementum Energy, Anaklia Development Consortium, BOUYGUES Travaux Publics, and Sade Companie Generale Des Travaux Hydroliques.
Research period review: 33rd edition (2023/2024)
Throughout the research period, the firm exhibited active engagement across key domains including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and project development. Its clientele encompassed a diverse spectrum, ranging from local companies and banks to institutional investors, as well as foreign clients with extensive international and multijurisdictional business operations.
Within the scope of banking and finance, the firm specialized in project finance and securing financing from institutional investors. Its expertise extended to providing guidance to both lenders and borrowers involved in cross-border transactions.
The firm demonstrated significant activity within the capital markets practice, offering advisory services to government institutions as well as corporate entities. Its expertise encompassed various aspects of bonds and notes issuance, including restructuring endeavors.
The firm's corporate and mergers and acquisitions practice was marked by a remarkable level of activity. It predominantly provided guidance to both foreign and local sellers, overseeing acquisitions involving assets and shares across several sectors, notably including banking, investment management, technology, telecommunications, and manufacturing.
In the domain of project development, the firm demonstrated considerable involvement in diverse areas, including real estate development and energy-related ventures such as electricity utilities projects. The roster of projects undertaken encompassed a wide range of activities, including the acquisition of immovable property, land procurement, and the drafting of an array of agreements, spanning from power purchase agreements to transmission and dispatch contracts, as well as construction agreements. The firm's expertise extended to overseeing tender procedures and addressing an array of project-related legal and regulatory intricacies.
Deal highlights: 33rd edition (2023/2024)
Ajaristskhali Georgia $350 million construction project
Tbilisi Hills Golf and Resort $1 billion golfing club project
Phazisi Group $300 million hydropower stations
Client feedback: 33rd edition (2023/2024)
Project development
"First of all, the advice is very solid legally speaking and based on past experience. Their advice is also very down to earth with a pragmatic approach. They also provide extra advice to ensure we have looked with a 360 view."
"BLC Law Office, led by its partner Giorgi Batlidze, is knowledgeable in various legal fields pertaining to our activities; their team is always eager to help and very diverse in their expertise. We feel we are in safe hands with them."
Giorgi Batlidze
"Good knowledge of sector."
"He is extremely client-oriented, knowledgeable, and always eager to help. He is a true jewel of the Georgian legal practice and always delivers solutions, rather than points out challenges. "
"Eager to help and extremely reliable and knowledgeable. "
"He is partner at BLC and with him we were almost always able to find a suitable solution."
"Professional, pragmatic."
Lasha Uplisashvili
"His knowledge and experience."
