[ languages ]
Russian, English, Georgian
Amiran Gogiberidze
Managing Partner
Advocate
[ education ]
Law degree, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), 1998
Amiran is a co-founder and managing partner of KORR Legal. He leads major banking projects, corporate disputes with a foreign element and parallel proceedings abroad, and large-scale land and real estate litigation. His recent focus is cross-border insolvency and asset tracing: recognition of Russian judgments and of insolvency officeholders' powers, freezing relief and disclosure in the jurisdictions where those mechanisms are hardest to obtain.
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[ professional profile ]
Advocate, member of the Moscow Region Bar

Recommended by Who's Who Legal in customs law
Key experience

Leads cross-border insolvency mandates for Russia's largest banks: recognition of Russian judgments and of insolvency proceedings in Western Europe, the UK, Israel and Georgia;

Led the matter in which the High Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) froze approximately USD 90 million of the debtor's assets;

Obtained various disclosure orders in Cyprus, including Norwich Pharmacal orders, and a worldwide freezing order and had them enforced against a Latvian bank;

Regulated insider dealing on the securities market: contributed to the drafting of Russian securities market regulations and supervised market participants;

Defended Russia's largest real estate owner against hostile takeovers.

Expertise and impact

Runs asset tracing as a litigation track in its own right: from establishing the debtor's centre of main interests through to freezing relief and enforcement in the jurisdiction where the assets have been dissipated;

Works where recognition of Russian proceedings is challenging: Israel, the British Virgin Islands, Georgia, Cyprus, Latvia and Italy;

Designed and implemented comprehensive defence strategies against hostile takeovers in Moscow and the Moscow Region, and consolidated regional defence practice in corporate conflicts.