About us
,,Union Legal'' is a modern law firm that combines extensive practical experience with innovative legal approaches. Our team is composed of partners with 15+ years of professional experience and highly qualified attorneys who successfully handle complex legal disputes and sophisticated transactions.
For us, legal service is more than consultation — we are your strategic partners, protecting your interests, minimizing risks, and ensuring your business’s legal security at every stage.
Our competitive edge is defined by an interdisciplinary vision and operational agility. This allows us to tackle challenges thoroughly, delivering solutions that harmonize legal precision with financial and operational stability. At ,,Union Legal'', we are committed to long-term, trust-based relationships where client success is our ultimate benchmark—turning legal complexities into strategic opportunities for growth.
Our Team
Services
Strategic Legal Consulting and Risk Management
Union Legal, staffed by experienced and highly qualified attorneys and specialists in various fields, offers clients a wide range of legal consultancy and individually tailored legal strategies focused on protecting their interests and business priorities.
Union Legal provides practical advice and solutions for complex legal issues, oriented toward achieving real results. Union Legal will assist you in correctly structuring transactions and ensuring their timely execution, as well as providing consultation on all practical matters essential for the legal security of your activities.
Union Legal offers clients a combined approach to risk analysis and dispute resolution strategies, with support from both qualified attorneys and specific sector experts. Union Legal ensures the protection of client interests in administrative bodies, all instances of the Georgian courts, and arbitration.
Attorneys at Union Legal will prepare all legal documentation necessary for litigation and assist you in the enforcement of court decisions. With us, your legal security is guaranteed.
Service includes:
- Interactive Communication: Organizing working meetings and providing in-depth oral consultations on current issues;
- Expert Analysis: Preparing high-quality legal opinions on complex legal matters;
- Risk Management: Identifying potential threats, analyzing risks, and developing effective, individual strategies for dispute resolution.
Court and Arbitration Disputes
Union Legal offers clients representation in common courts, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution processes—with the aim of timely dispute resolution and effective conflict management.
Union Legal is focused on protecting the client's interests, identifying and minimizing risks, maintaining business relationships, and achieving favorable outcomes through negotiations, mediation, and court/arbitration proceedings.
Service includes:
- Court Representation: Qualified attorneys from Union Legal protect client interests in civil, administrative, and criminal directions across all three instances of court. Union Legal handles cases at both the national and international levels.
- International and Domestic Arbitration: Attorneys at Union Legal provide full support to clients in arbitral institutions. Services include strategic consulting, preparation of arbitration agreements, process management, and enforcement of arbitral awards.
- Mediation and Negotiations: Union Legal offers professional representation in mediation processes and negotiations. The priority of Union Legal is the peaceful resolution of disputes to help clients avoid prolonged and costly litigation.
Contract Law
Attorneys at Union Legal possess years of multifaceted experience in preparing and analyzing legal documentation and contracts of any complexity. Drafting a contract involves assessing all expectations and risks of the parties. A properly drafted contract is a guarantee for conducting stable and protected legal relationships with counterparties.
Attorneys at Union Legal possess contract processing and drafting techniques in both Georgian and foreign languages, ensuring maximum protection of the parties' interests.
Services in the field of contract law include:
- Preparation of Legal Documents: Drafting high-protection documents in accordance with national and international legislation;
- Representation in Negotiations: Protecting the interests of individuals and legal entities during the contract preparation stage and the process of reconciling terms with counterparties;
- Complex Analysis and Risk Management: Full legal expertise of any type of contract, identification of expected risks, and development of mechanisms for their insurance.
Corporate Law
In today's rapidly developing market economy, businesses face numerous challenges and complexities while coexisting with competitors in a constantly changing legal environment. Therefore, Union Legal offers comprehensive corporate legal services tailored to the unique needs of your business.
Union Legal supports clients in correctly structuring and timely implementing corporate transactions based on their commercial goals and various needs. Union Legal offers practical solutions to representatives of various sectors on all legal issues necessary for successful business functioning.
Our service includes the following strategic-complex operations:
- Business Establishment and Structuring: Selecting the organizational-legal form tailored to the specifics of the activity, company registration, and preparation of founding documentation (charter, partners' agreement).
- Corporate Governance: Organizing the convening of partners' meetings, drafting minutes, legal analysis of adopted decisions, and, if necessary, appealing them.
- Internal Legal Regulation: Preparing company internal regulations, labor contracts (compliance with the Labor Code), and other internal documentation.
- Legal Due Diligence: Full legal examination of the company's activities and documentation.
- Reorganization and Transformation: Transformation, merger (M&A), and division of entrepreneurial societies.
- Transnational Operations: Legal support for international-level corporate transactions.
Insolvency Proceedings (Rehabilitation/Bankruptcy)
Insolvency proceedings hold a special place in corporate law. This field became even more relevant in 2021, after the enactment of the new Law "On Rehabilitation and Collective Satisfaction of Creditors." This legislation prioritizes the survival of the enterprise (rehabilitation) alongside the maximum protection of creditors' interests.
Union Legal offers complex legal support to enterprises facing financial difficulties. Attorneys at Union Legal provide consultation to creditors, debtors, investors, and other interested parties regarding insolvency procedures, debt restructuring, and business recovery strategies.
Service includes:
- Financial Recovery Strategy: Developing an effective action plan for the survival of the enterprise;
- Initiation of Proceedings: Preparing and submitting the application for opening insolvency (rehabilitation or bankruptcy) regimes;
- Representation of Interests: Protecting the interests of the client as a debtor or creditor during the rehabilitation or bankruptcy process;
- Rehabilitation Plan Management: Structuring and drafting the rehabilitation plan, supervising the client's activities, and preparing relevant reporting;
- Communication and Negotiations: Representation at creditors' meetings, conducting negotiations with the debtor, creditors, or the rehabilitation/bankruptcy manager.
Banking and Finance
Union Legal, with years of experience accumulated in the field of financial market regulation, provides full legal services to clients in both the public and private sectors. Deep knowledge of the financial sector allows the attorneys and experts at Union Legal to provide qualified consultation to financial institutions (banks, microfinance organizations, payment service providers, etc.) and help them manage complex issues such as regulatory compliance (Compliance).
Services in the banking and finance field include:
- Authorization and Licensing: Supporting financial institutions in the process of obtaining licenses and permits for relevant activities;
- Interaction with the Regulator: Representing clients with sector regulatory bodies (e.g., the National Bank of Georgia);
- Compliance Control (Compliance & AML): Ensuring activity compliance with current legislation, including the implementation and strategic adaptation of anti-money laundering (AML) legislative requirements;
- Capital Attraction and Project Financing: Legal structuring of capital attraction, preparation of business plans, and legal accompaniment of project financing;
- Resolution of Banking Disputes: Settling disagreements arising from the use of banking products, taking into account the interests of both the creditor and the debtor;
- Preparation of Banking Documentation: Processing and drafting framework agreements, credit agreements, mortgages, pledges, bank guarantees, and letters of credit.
Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) Compliance
Union Legal offers highly qualified services in the field of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT). Our team assists accountable persons (financial institutions and the non-financial sector) in the effective implementation of international standards (FATF) and national legislative requirements, which is essential to avoid legal risks and reputational damage.
Services in the direction of AML/CFT compliance include:
- Development of Internal Policies and Procedures: Preparing internal control mechanisms, instructions, and manuals promoting the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing;
- Risk Assessment and Management: Identifying and assessing risks related to clients, products, and geographical areas, and creating corresponding risk matrices;
- Customer Due Diligence (CDD/EDD): Structuring customer identification and verification procedures (KYC), including the implementation of Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) methodology for high-risk persons
- Setting up Transaction Monitoring Systems: Legal support for the process of identifying, analyzing, and reporting suspicious transactions to the regulatory body.
- International Sanctions Compliance: Developing mechanisms to ensure compliance with international financial sanctions regimes (UN, OFAC, EU, etc.)
- Training and Consultations: Organizing specialized training for company employees regarding AML/CFT regulations and practical obligations.
Construction and Real Estate Law
The real estate market in Georgia is one of the most dynamic sectors. Attorneys at Union Legal have years of experience in this industry and deep knowledge of the legislation. This enables us to offer clients multifaceted consultation, including the legal and tax structuring of real estate transactions.
The service spectrum covers the full cycle of legal relations related to real estate and construction—from obtaining ownership rights to the administration of construction permits.
Union Legal offers complex legal support:
- Legal Audit and Expertise: Studying the legal status of real estate and preparing corresponding opinions, including assessing the potential of property for construction development
- Transaction Support: Preparing any form of transaction (sale, privatization, lease, rent) and consulting during the process of investing in real estate.
- Administrative Proceedings and Permits: Representing clients with administrative bodies to obtain construction permits, project planning, and real estate development
- Legal Management of the Construction Process: Preparing necessary contracts at any stage of construction, participating in negotiations, and legal supervision of the process.
- Collateral Mechanisms: Preparing mortgage and pledge agreements and their registration in the Public Registry.
- Litigation: Protecting client interests in any legal dispute related to real estate.
Labor Law
Protecting the balance of interests between the employer and the employee is crucial for labor market stability. Personnel management must be based on legal approaches compatible with current legislation and court practice. This goal can be achieved by correctly assessing risks at the very beginning of the labor relationship and through qualifiedly prepared contracts.
Attorneys at Union Legal, with years of experience in labor law, provide comprehensive support to companies and employees. Union Legal offers both bringing labor relations into full compliance with the law and consultation on individual legal issues.
Services in the labor law direction include:
- Preparation and Analysis of Documentation: Developing qualified labor contracts, agreements, and internal labor regulations, or auditing existing documentation.
- Institutional Regulation: Forming company internal policy and implementing mandatory procedures for informing and consulting employees.
- Rights Protection and Ethics: Developing mechanisms and regulations against harassment and discrimination in the workplace
- Ongoing Consultations: Legal support on issues such as leave, temporary disability (sick leave), overtime work, reinstatement to work, and compensation for lost wages
- Termination of Labor Relations: Consulting on the grounds and procedures for contract termination to minimize risks.
- Collective Relations: Interacting with trade unions and conducting collective negotiations
- Representation and Disputes: Full protection of client interests in the Labor Inspection and common courts at any stage of labor disputes.
Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Law
Healthcare law is one of the most dynamic and important branches of modern jurisprudence. It regulates the interaction of rights and duties of patients, medical personnel, and medical institutions. Union Legal offers qualified legal assistance to entities operating in the healthcare sector to ensure their activities fully comply with state standards and ethical norms.
Services in the healthcare field include:
- Medical Documentation Management: Preparing contracts related to medical services, internal protocols, and legal documentation for patient interaction
- Authorization and Licensing: Full legal accompaniment of the process of obtaining licenses and permits required for medical and pharmaceutical activities
- Pharmaceutical Law: State registration of medicine, obtaining the status of a pharmaceutical institution, and ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Preventive Consulting: Legal advice regarding medical errors and other specific issues to avoid potential disputes.
- Representation: Protecting client interests in the Medical and Pharmaceutical Activities Regulation Agency, other administrative bodies, and court.
Family and Inheritance Law
Family and inheritance issues are often closely linked to the property interests of family members. Union Legal provides legal services with high ethical standards aimed at the fair and peaceful regulation of family and inheritance relationships.
Services in the family and inheritance law direction include:
- Consulting Service: Legal consultations on all aspects of family and inheritance law
- Marriage Contracts: Preparing marriage contracts to regulate property relations.
- Divorce and Related Disputes: Representation in court on issues of divorce, property division, alimony obligations, and determining the child's place of residence.
- Adoption and Guardianship: Legal support and representation in court and administrative bodies during the implementation of the adoption process.
- Acceptance of Inheritance and Inheritance Certificate: Managing procedures for recognition as an heir, involvement in necessary processes to obtain an inheritance certificate, and interaction with a notary.
- Inheritance Disputes: Representation in court during the resolution of disputes arising in connection with inheritance.
Intellectual Property
In the modern business environment, interest in legal mechanisms for the protection of intellectual property has increased significantly. Union Legal offers complex services to protect your intellectual assets, including the registration process as well as subsequent management and protection of rights.
Union Legal ensures representation of client interests in trademark registration and relations covered by copyright. In case of rights infringement, Union Legal will assist you in legal disputes related to damage compensation in "Sakpatenti" and administrative bodies, as well as in court.
Services in the intellectual property direction include:
- Registration of Trademarks and Patents: Trademark search (establishing identity/similarity), application preparation, registration, renewal, and maintenance in force.
- Interaction with the Patent Office: Corresponding with "Sakpatenti," managing administrative procedures, and registration (entering intellectual property objects into the registry)
- Transfer of Rights and Licensing: Preparing contracts for licensing, change of owner, and assignment of rights.
- Copyright and Related Rights: Consulting and preparing contracts on issues related to copyright.
- Prevention and Management of Disputes: Developing strategies to avoid disputes related to intellectual property, participating in negotiations, and representation in court.
Administrative Law
Administrative law regulates the activities of state and self-government bodies, their organization, and interaction with citizens and legal entities. Experienced attorneys at Union Legal have rich practice in representing clients with state agencies and various regulatory bodies, ensuring efficiency and legal security in relations with public authorities.
Services within the framework of administrative proceedings include:
- Representation in Administrative Bodies: Protecting client interests at any stage of administrative proceedings and communicating with public agencies
- Administrative Disputes Preparing administrative lawsuits and complaints, representation in common courts against state bodies
- Appealing Decisions: Appealing decisions made by administrative bodies, individual or normative acts, and imposed fines and sanctions
- Licensing and Permits: Full legal support in the process of obtaining licenses and permits, as well as—if necessary—ensuring their suspension.
- Sectoral Disputes: Managing specific administrative disputes related to tax, finance, and the public registry.
- Access to Public Information: Requesting information from state agencies and protecting client rights in the process of receiving public information.
Criminal Law
Union Legal offers clients full legal services in the field of criminal law. Union Legal ensures the protection of the interests of parties involved in the process at all stages of investigation, preliminary hearings, and the hearing of the case on its merits. The priority of Union Legal is the unwavering protection of client rights and ensuring fair justice.
Service in the criminal law direction includes:
- Legal Consultation and Analysis: In-depth study of criminal case materials and circumstances, preparation of legal opinions on issues related to charges, signs of crime, and criminal liability.
- Advocacy and Defense: Protecting client interests during the investigation process and representation in court. Our practice covers a wide spectrum of crimes, including:
- "White collar" crimes (economic and official crime);
- Fraud, theft, and crimes directed against property;
- Violent crime and cases of domestic violence.
- Procedural Representation: Legal support when selecting a measure of restraint (e.g., bail) and conducting negotiations for the purpose of concluding a plea agreement.
- Appealing and Subsequent Support: Conducting cases in appellate and cassation instances, as well as managing legal procedures necessary for the early release of a convict.
Tax and Customs Law
Experienced tax experts at Union Legal provide highly qualified and prompt service for various business sectors. With the help of Union Legal, you will be constantly informed about national legislative regulations and expected tax changes.
We assist business entities in bringing their activities into compliance with current legislative requirements and developing individual strategies aimed at optimizing tax positions.
Services in the tax and customs direction include:
- Tax Strategy: Developing and documenting corporate tax strategy and optimizing business processes.
- Tax Expertise (Tax Audit): Qualified examination aimed at identifying tax risks at an early stage and minimizing them
- Customs Law Consulting on legal issues related to customs procedures, tariffs, and import-export operations.
- Tax Disputes: Representation at the Dispute Resolution Board under the Ministry of Finance and in court at any stage of tax disputes.