GRATA Law Firm

Revaz Javelidze is the Director and Head of the Georgian Practice of GRATA Georgia LLC specializing in power and natural resources’, corporate, M&A, general commercial and employment matters. Before joining GRATA, he served as an independent consultant to large local and foreign companies and advised on business development, M&A and business brokerage matters. For past three years, Mr. Javelidze has successfully carried out several major projects, mostly in real estate and telecom sectors. From 2004-06, Mr. Javelidze was in government service. He served as the Deputy CEO at Millennium Challenge Georgia (MCG) Fund where, on behalf of the Georgian Government, he successfully participated in drafting, negotiating and signing USD 300 million Compact and its Supplement Agreements, international agreements of Georgia, with the US Millennium Challenge Corporation. In parallel, he also served as the Deputy Chairman of Supervisory Board of United Telecom Georgia, the largest fixed line operator in Georgia. Before the aforementioned positions, Mr. Javelidze served as legal and investment advisor to the Prime Minister of Georgia. Before work at the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr. Javelidze worked for an international law firm of Baker & McKenzie CIS Ltd. for more than three years based in Baku and Moscow, where his work had been a combination of Georgian and Russian practices and had been mostly concentrated on M&A and major projects, including power and natural resources, infrastructure, utilities regulation and privatization projects. Mr. Javelidze was admitted to practice law in Georgia in 1998, where, prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, he was an in-house lawyer for the Georgian International Oil Corporation (GIOC). Mr. Javelidze graduated from the University of Texas, School of Law in June 2000, where he received an LL.M degree. He also graduated from Tbilisi State University in May 1998, where he received a five-year equivalent of a J.D. degree with honors and Lewis & Clark College in May 1998 with B.A. degree in Political Science. He is fluent in Georgian, Russian and English languages.