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Legal Support for Foreign-Owned Georgian Companies
The legal side of owning a Georgian company from abroad: who is qualified to advise you, what corporate governance actually requires, and when to bring a lawyer in rather than an administrator.
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Who Owns the Code: IP Assignment in a Georgian Software Company
Georgian law protects code as a literary work and, by default, gives the property rights in work done under a job or an order to the employer or the client. That default has edges: it stops at the scope of the duties, yields to any contrary clause, does not reach code written before the contract, and leaves moral rights with the author. What the Law says, where it runs out, what a working assignment clause contains, and a checklist of what to sign with whom.
Contractor or Employee in Georgia: Where the Line Is and What Crossing It Costs
A Georgian company can hire an employee or engage an individual entrepreneur under a service agreement, and the second looks cheaper on every line. The label does not decide which one it is. What makes a relationship employment under the Labour Code, how the tax and pension treatment differs, who checks, what a reclassification costs the company, who owns the work, and when a contractor is the honest answer.
Ending an Employment Contract in Georgia: Grounds, Notice and Severance
Georgia has no dismissal at will. The Labour Code lists the grounds on which an employment contract can end, gives the employer two notice options with different severance, and gives the employee a right to written reasons and a short deadline to go to court. What each ground needs, how probation and fixed-term contracts differ, and what the final settlement must contain.
A Director's Duties and Personal Liability in a Georgian LLC
Limited liability protects the owners of a Georgian LLC, not the person who runs it. The Law on Entrepreneurs sets a director's duties of care and loyalty, a ban on competing, a defence for honest business decisions and a three-week deadline to act when the company is insolvent. What a director answers for and to whom, how a resignation takes effect, and why a nominee directorship means accepting all of it for a fee.
Registering a Trademark in Georgia: What Sakpatenti Asks of a Foreign Founder
A registered company name protects nothing beyond the registry. The brand a Georgian company trades under is protected only by a trademark, and Georgia's system has rules a foreign applicant meets at the first step: a local representative, a class list, an examination and an opposition window. What the route looks like, how long it takes, and when the international route is the better one.
Two Founders, One Georgian LLC: What Goes in the Charter and What Goes in the Shareholders' Agreement
A single-founder LLC can live on the registry's model charter. The moment there are two owners, or an investor, the default rules start deciding things nobody discussed: who can sell to whom, what happens when one founder leaves, how a deadlock is broken. Georgia's 2021 law leaves most of this to the founders, in two documents with different audiences. Which terms belong where, and what the defaults do if you write nothing.
Changing a Georgian Company: Directors, Shareholders, Address and Charter
Every change a company makes after registration and what the Public Registry needs to record it - decisions, consents, translations - plus the changes founders forget to file at all.
Closing a Georgian Company Properly: Liquidation, Tax Clearance and Deregistration
Voluntary liquidation step by step, the legal framework and creditor-protection rules behind it, what the Revenue Service needs before it lets go, how long it realistically takes, and why simply walking away from a Georgian company is the most expensive option available.
The Corporate Documents Every Georgian Company Should Actually Hold
The charter, founders' resolution, director's consent, share transfer, UBO declaration, orders and minutes - what each document does under the Law on Entrepreneurs, when you need it, and the mistakes that make a Georgian company unbankable.
Legal Services in Georgia: What a Law Firm Actually Does for a Foreign-Owned Company
What corporate legal support in Georgia covers in practice, when you need a licensed advocate rather than a consultant, how legal fees are structured, how privilege and conflicts work, what an engagement letter should say, and how to instruct a Georgian firm so the work is useful.
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