German Legal and Business Translation for DACH Companies in Georgia

Registering a Georgian company with German, Austrian or Swiss founders

A GmbH or AG founding a Georgian subsidiary, branch or representative office submits a Georgian translation of its Handelsregisterauszug (or Austrian Firmenbuchauszug, or Swiss Handelsregisterauszug), its Gesellschaftsvertrag or Satzung, the Gesellschafterbeschluss or Vorstandsbeschluss approving the Georgian entity, and a Vollmacht if a local representative files. All must be apostilled in the country of origin and notarized in Tbilisi. Individual founders submit a translated passport. We draft the Georgian charter bilingually with a parallel German column so the founder signs a text they can read, and we know the wording the National Agency of Public Registry expects for Stammkapital, Geschäftsführung and Sitz. After registration, the Georgian Public Registry extract and charter are translated into German for the parent, its Hausbank and its Wirtschaftsprüfer.

Verträge between German-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 Kaufverträge for property and equipment, Mietverträge, Arbeitsverträge for German staff seconded to Georgia and Georgian workers recruited to Germany, Liefer- und Vertriebsverträge, Dienstleistungsverträge, Gesellschaftervereinbarungen, Darlehens- und Bürgschaftsverträge, Geheimhaltungsvereinbarungen and Franchiseverträge for German brands opening in Tbilisi. The translator is a legal specialist who keeps defined terms, cross-references and numbering consistent and flags where a German concept - Eigentumsvorbehalt, Vertragsstrafe, AGB incorporation, certain Gewährleistung rules - needs a lawyer's decision on the Georgian equivalent rather than a translator's guess.

Court judgments, arbitration and enforcement

German, Austrian and Swiss judgments in family, commercial and succession matters are recognized and enforced in Georgia through proceedings requiring notarized Georgian translations of the Urteil, the Rechtskraftbescheinigung and supporting documents, all apostilled. Georgian judgments and notarized loan deeds go the other way for Vollstreckung in Germany, Austria or Switzerland, translated into German and apostilled. Arbitration under DIS rules in Germany, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre, 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. Erbrecht files - German Erbscheine, Testamente and Nachlassgericht orders concerning Georgian property, and Georgian inheritance certificates for German estates - are a specialty of our German team. Litigation files are handled under NDA with restricted access.

Jahresabschlüsse, Wirtschaftsprüfung and tax documents

Georgian subsidiaries of German groups report to head office under HGB and IFRS, and German investors present accounts to Georgian banks and the Revenue Service. We translate Jahresabschlüsse and Lageberichte, Bilanzen and GuV, Prüfungsberichte and Bestätigungsvermerke from Wirtschaftsprüfer, Ansässigkeitsbescheinigungen for treaty relief under the Germany-Georgia double taxation agreement, Umsatzsteuer documents, Verrechnungspreisdokumentation and bank confirmation letters. The translators on this team have accounting backgrounds, use HGB and IFRS terminology consistently in both languages and reconcile the numbers in every table before delivery.

Tenders, licenses, customs and certificates

German companies bid on Georgian state tenders in energy, water, transport, construction and vocational education through the State Procurement Agency's Georgian-language system, submitting translated company documents, Referenzen, technical proposals and Bankgarantien 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. Trade with Germany generates its own paperwork: Ursprungszeugnisse, EUR.1 movement certificates, Konformitätserklärungen and CE documentation, Zollanmeldungen and Lieferscheine, phytosanitary and veterinary certificates for Georgian agricultural exports, all translated between German 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, and we can process data under a DSGVO-compliant Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag for German clients. 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 German law firms, the German Business Association in Georgia's member companies and accounting practices serving German clients.

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