Private advisory firm · Tbilisi
Where markets meet
Private advisory in Georgia for international clients. We work from the ground where European, Middle Eastern, Asian and African interests overlap, and we work in both directions.
Outlook
Capital moves faster than the rules that govern it
Companies and families now hold assets, people and customers in several jurisdictions at once. Each jurisdiction asks different questions, and asks them at different times.
The work is no longer picking a country. It is holding a position that survives contact with all of them. That is what we are for.
The centre
Georgia is a position, not a destination
Tbilisi sits within a short flight of Istanbul, Dubai, Athens and the Gulf. Georgia holds free trade access to the European Union, China, Turkey, the EFTA states and the CIS. Very few jurisdictions hold that combination at once.
That is what makes Georgia somewhere to hold a structure, rather than simply somewhere to move to. The country is also small, and that is part of the argument. Institutions are reachable, decisions arrive quickly, and a serious project gets attention.
Corridors
Five corridors, one centre
Our work follows corridors rather than borders. Each one carries a different kind of client, a different pace and a different set of expectations. Georgia is the point they pass through.
Outside Tbilisi, Cannes and Geneva we work through relationships rather than offices. We say so plainly, because knowing who actually holds the relationship is the difference between an introduction and an outcome.
What we do
Six objectives
Clients arrive with an objective, not with a service category. We organise the firm the same way. Most mandates begin with one of these and grow into two or three.
Enter
Market entry
Establishing a presence in Georgia or in a market Georgia gives access to. Assessment of the opportunity, choice of vehicle, registration, banking, and the first commercial relationships.
Invest
Investment advisory
Real estate, operating businesses and private opportunities in Georgia and the wider region. Sourcing, review, valuation context, and the structure the investment is held through.
Structure
Cross-border corporate and financial
Holding structures, group architecture, treasury and intra-group flows across several jurisdictions. We design the position and coordinate with qualified professionals in each jurisdiction to put it in place.
Relocate
International mobility
Moving a principal, a family or a management team. Residence, schooling, housing, banking and the sequencing that keeps a personal move from breaking a corporate position.
Connect
Partners and network
Introductions that carry weight: banks, counterparties, suppliers, buyers, institutions and advisers. In Georgia this is often the whole mandate, and it is rarely something a client can build alone from outside.
Operate
Private office
Ongoing coordination once a structure is live. Reporting, renewals, deadlines, counterparties and the running relationship with local professionals, held by one team that already knows the file.
Who we work with
Both directions of the same bridge
International clients coming into Georgia, and Georgian businesses going out. The second group is growing faster, and it is underserved.
The entrepreneur
Building a company that will sell outside the country it is registered in, and wants the base settled before the revenue arrives.
The investor
Deploying into Georgian real estate or private opportunities, and wanting local judgement rather than a brochure.
The international family
Holding assets and residences in more than one country, with succession and mobility to think about together.
The international company
Entering Georgia or the region, sourcing from it, or using it as the point through which a corridor runs.
The family office
Looking for a counterpart on the ground who can hold a position between mandates and report honestly on it.
The Georgian business going international
Ready to sell, raise or establish abroad, and needing the European reading of its own file before it does.
Why the firm
Two institutional cultures in one room
Georgian institutions, read from inside
Victor Gogoladze is a Franco-Georgian economist who has worked at the National Bank of Georgia and inside the Georgian government. He knows how a decision is actually taken here, and how long it takes.
French corporate discipline
Giorgi Gogoladze is an Expert-Comptable in France. European clients get their file read to the standard their own auditors, banks and boards will later apply to it.
We stay past the paperwork
Registration is the easy part and the part everyone sells. The difficulty starts in year two. We price and staff for that.
How we work
Four stages, in order
Orientation
A first conversation, without commitment. We establish what the objective actually is, and say early if Georgia is the wrong answer to it.
Position
A written view: the structure, the jurisdictions involved, the sequence, the costs and the exposures we can see.
Execution
We run the file. Registration, banking, permits and counterparties, coordinated with qualified professionals where their licence is required.
Continuity
The private office mandate. Deadlines, reporting and the standing relationship, held by the people who built the structure.
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