Insights on company formation, banking and taxes in Georgia.
Transfer needs no consent, and the statute knows no pre-emption right over existing shares — but the transfer takes effect only on registration, and the seller stays jointly and severally liable.
Written form only above one month, ten mandatory terms, a six-month probation period and a notice period the employer may shorten by paying for it. The Georgian Labour Code in its own words.
Georgia’s data protection law has no market-place criterion, caps fines at 10,000 lari — and since 2 March 2026 has a different supervisory authority from the one every secondary source still names.
The catalogue of activities needing permission is exhaustive, and no other statute may extend it. Where the authority misses its deadline the licence is deemed granted — under an extension rule that carries a deadline of its own.
Choice of law in Georgia is freer than expected and bounded more sharply in one place. On forum, one clause is routinely set wrong — and at enforcement, arbitral awards and judgments part ways.
Thirty days from service, a two-stage procedure inside the Ministry of Finance, the courts open at any stage — and an appeal that does not hold up the assessment it challenges.
The arm’s length principle applies to cross-border dealings between related enterprises. The documentation is not filed but called for — and the deadline is not long enough to write it once the request arrives.
Georgia barely regulates advice but regulates representation sharply. Where the line actually runs, what SARAS has to do with it, and why the common rule of thumb is wrong in criminal matters.
