French Legal and Business Translation for French-Speaking Companies in Georgia

Registering a Georgian company with French, Belgian or Swiss founders

A French company founding a Georgian subsidiary, branch or representative office submits a Georgian translation of its extrait Kbis (or Belgian Banque-Carrefour des Entreprises extract, or Swiss registre du commerce extract), its statuts, the procès-verbal or décision of the board or shareholders approving the Georgian entity, and a procuration if a local representative files. All must be apostilled in the country of origin and notarized in Tbilisi. Individual French founders submit a translated passport. We draft the Georgian charter bilingually with a parallel French column so the founder signs a text they can read, and we know the wording the National Agency of Public Registry expects for capital, management and legal address. After registration, the Georgian Public Registry extract and charter are translated into French for the parent company, its bank and its auditors.

Contracts between French-speaking and Georgian parties

Georgian law permits contracts in any language, but the Georgian version is what a registry or court reads, so cross-border contracts are drafted bilingually in parallel columns. We translate sale and purchase agreements for property and vineyards, lease agreements, employment contracts for French staff seconded to Georgia, distribution and agency agreements for French wine importers and Georgian exporters, service agreements, shareholder agreements, loan and guarantee agreements, NDAs and franchise agreements for French brands opening in Tbilisi. The translator is a legal specialist who keeps defined terms, cross-references and numbering consistent across both languages and flags where a French civil-law concept - the clause de réserve de propriété, the pacte de préférence, certain forms of garantie - needs a lawyer's decision on the Georgian equivalent rather than a translator's guess.

Court judgments, arbitration and enforcement

French judgments in family, commercial and succession matters are recognized and enforced in Georgia through exequatur proceedings that require notarized Georgian translations of the judgment, the certificate of finality and supporting documents, all apostilled by the French Cour d'appel. Georgian judgments and notarized loan deeds go the other way for enforcement in France, Belgium or Switzerland, translated into French and apostilled. Arbitration under ICC rules in Paris, the Swiss Arbitration Centre or the Georgian International Arbitration Centre produces bilingual submissions, witness statements, expert reports and awards which we translate under procedural deadlines. Litigation files are handled under NDA with restricted access, encrypted storage and a dedicated team.

Financial statements, audit reports and tax documents

Georgian subsidiaries of French groups report to Paris, and French investors present accounts to Georgian banks and the Revenue Service. We translate comptes annuels and liasses fiscales, financial statements under French GAAP and IFRS, audit reports and lettres de recommandation from commissaires aux comptes, attestations de résidence fiscale for treaty relief under the France-Georgia tax convention, TVA documents, transfer pricing files and bank confirmation letters. The translators on this team have accounting backgrounds, use the IFRS and French GAAP terminology consistently in both languages and reconcile the numbers in every table before delivery.

Tenders, licenses, customs and the wine trade

French companies bid on Georgian state tenders in energy, water, transport and construction through the State Procurement Agency's Georgian-language system, submitting translated company documents, references, technical proposals and bank guarantees within days of the notice; we staff tender projects as a team. Licenses and permits for energy, construction, pharmaceuticals and hospitality are translated for regulators and investors. The wine and spirits trade generates its own paperwork: contracts with importers, certificates of origin, certificates of analysis, labeling compliance documents for the French market, EUR.1 movement certificates and customs declarations, and DAE/DAA excise documents, all translated between French and Georgian for exporters, importers and the Revenue Service customs department. Invoices and commercial documents are translated in bulk at reduced rates for regular traders.

Confidentiality, terminology and how corporate projects run

Every translator, editor and courier is bound by a non-disclosure agreement, files are encrypted and access is limited to the assigned team; we sign client-specific NDAs for M&A, litigation and tender work. Corporate clients receive a glossary and translation memory from the first project, so defined terms stay consistent across years of amendments and repeated text is not billed twice. Projects run in a fixed pattern: fixed quote within the hour, a legal or financial specialist plus a reviewer assigned by a project manager, questions returned to you in a single batch, delivery in the original format with tracked changes on request, and notarization and apostille scheduled in parallel with translation. Framework agreements with monthly invoicing and priority notary slots are available for French law firms, the French-Georgian business community and accounting practices serving French clients.

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