Senior Associate | Corporate, Banking & Finance and Labour
Eko Svanidze is a Senior Associate at BLC Law Office with over 17 years of experience advising international and domestic clients on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, employment, and regulatory matters.
Her practice focuses on cross-border transactions, corporate restructurings, financing arrangements, legal due diligence, corporate governance and complex commercial contracts. Eko regularly advises multinational corporations, financial institutions, investment funds and international organisations on Georgian law aspects of domestic and international transactions, as well as on employment and regulatory issues.
She has particular experience assisting foreign investors with market entry into Georgia and advising on sophisticated transactions involving regulated entities, financial markets and corporate reorganisations. Alongside her transactional work, she advises employers on executive employment, workforce restructuring and complex labour law matters.
Eko is also an invited lecturer at the Joint Master's Programme in Public Administration offered by Tbilisi State University and the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, where she teaches EU and Public Administration.
- Advised an Israeli defence company on the acquisition of a Georgian aerospace manufacturer, including negotiation of a multi-million US dollar share purchase agreement and related transaction documents.
- Advised multinational corporations on complex Georgian employment matters, including executive employment, workforce restructuring, employee transfers and cross-border HR projects.
- Advised international financial institutions and commercial banks on financing transactions, security arrangements and Georgian regulatory matters.
- Led legal due diligence exercises and advised on mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructurings involving Georgian companies across multiple industries.
- Advised international asset managers on the regulatory framework applicable to the marketing of investment funds in Georgia.
- Regularly prepares Georgian law legal opinions and provides transaction support to leading international law firms on cross-border matters.
- The Legal 500 Europe 2026 – Honorable Mention.
- LL.M. (with Honours, Class Valedictorian), Leiden University
- Master's Degree in Civil Law, Tbilisi State University
- Bachelor's Degree in Law, Tbilisi State University
- Admitted to the Georgian Bar Association