Beka Injia Law & Disputes – (BILD)
BEKA INJIA
Attorney at law / Counsel / Arbitration expert
Nationality
Georgian
Practice Area
International arbitration, litigation, Dispute settlement mechanisms, Investment projects, construction, energy, real estate
Biography
Beka Injia currently holds the position of the Secretary General of the Georgian International Arbitration Centre. With his leadership GIAC has become a leading arbitration centre in the region. In parallel he is running its private legal practice. For more than 6 years he was the legal director in Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Mr. Injia has previously worked both in public and in private sector. His professional experience includes positions at the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, where he was advisor in a division of State Representation in Arbitration and foreign Courts. He also worked in ministry of Finances. For number of year he was the General legal counsel of one of the largest Real Estate Development Company (Meidan Group) in Georgia. He has served as arbitrator in a several constriction disputes. He is a member of supervisory boards of various Corporations.
Mr. Injia has been the member of various working groups and committees created with the aim of reforming the existing Georgian Legislation in the field of Arbitration and dispute settlement. He is recognized expert in the field of Arbitration.
He is also member of Georgian bar Association, Georgian Arbitrators Association, Georgian Law firms Association;
Mr. Injia holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Law from Tbilisi State University, as well as an LL.M in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) from a joint program of the Geneva University Law School and the Graduate Institute of international and Development Studies, in Geneva, Switzerland, also The Hague Academy of International Law.
Mr. Injia frequently participates in a number of international and local workshops, conferences as a speaker. He is an invited lecturer at several Universities in Georgia.
Languages
Georgian, English, Russian
Education
2009 – 2010
Geneva University Law School and Geneva, Switzerland
The Graduate Institute of international and Development studies
Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement (LLM)
Received a full-ride scholarship sponsored by Hans Wilsdorf Foundation
2006 – 2008
Tbilisi Iv. Javakhishvili State University
Tbilisi,Georgia
The Academic Degree of Master of Law
2002 – 2006
Tbilisi Iv. Javakhishvili State University
Tbilisi,Georgia
The Academic Degree of Master of Law
Graduated with Honors
Working Experience
February. 2019 – Present
JSC “Partnership Fund”
Legal Consultant
Representing JSC “Partnership Fund” in the supervisory boards
April 2019 – Present
JSC “Georgian Railway”
Supervisory board member
January 2014 – Present
Georgian International Arbitration Centre
Secretary General
January 2012 – July 2018
Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
General Counsel
Leading the legal direction, ADR reform
April 2015 – December 2016
JSC “Partnership Fund”
Legal Advisor
Working on various investment project, legal consulting
January 2011 – December 2013
LLC “Meidan Group”
Real estate development Company
General Counsel
Providing legal assistance; Company representation in the courts and arbitration; concentration on real estate & Construction, corporate law matters, M&A, tax Law
December 2007 – January 2011
Ministry of Finance of Georgia
Senior specialist of Legal Department
Preparation of the drafts of Normative acts; drafting amendments and providing the legal expertise of the legal acts; drafting the legal opinions on the state Contracts (including investment projects involving state)
Membership
Mr. Injia has been member of various organisation in over the different period of time
- Founding member of LEPL Mediators’ Association of Georgia;
- Member of the Working Group on the revision of the legal framework of arbitration in Georgia under the Ministry of Justice of Georgia;
- Member of the task force on amendments of Georgian Law on Arbitration;
- Member of interagency commission on private law reforms;
- Member of international committee on final revision of GIAC arbitration rules;
- Board Member of the Georgian Association of Arbitrators (GAA);
- Member of Tax dispute council under Ministry of Finance of Georgia;
- Member of the working group under Investors Council on revision of new draft law on “Entrepreneurship”.
Other Experience and projects
- Participating in the implementation of GIAC – Resolve joint project on “Early response to potential commercial disputes triggered by COVID-19”;
- Negotiation and execution of the contracts on the following projects:
- Energy sector: constriction of several Hydropower Plants (BOO type)
- Real Estate: development and construction of several international branded hotels
- Radisson Collection, best western ect.
- M&A: involved the companies and real estate owned by Iranian and Georgian investors;
- Acting on behalf of GCCI and GIAC as an appointing authority under the FIDIC Contracts in a number related large infrastructural projects, involving different international companies and state agencies (e.g. Road Department);
- Representing the client in ICC arbitration dispute under the FIDIC Contract (red book 1999 ed.) against one of the biggest Georgian equity funds;
- Sitting as an Mediator and Arbitrator in commercial and private disputes;
- Providing the legal opinion and advices on the contract termination to the Georgian Government, in terms of Georgian law regarding almost one billion dollar valued HPP projects, together with Sherman and Sterling LLP legal team.
- Participating in the recognition and enforcement procedure of foreign arbitral award in Georgian Supreme Court rendered by the arbitration tribunals in Moscow, Kiev and Zurich;
- Representing foreign investors in multi-million court claim regarding agricultural project in Georgia;
- Providing legal advice and assistants in legal matters to several international brand companies;
Speaking engagement and participations
May, 2021 (Virtually)
Arbitration and Insolvency (new regulations)
speaker
June, 2020 (Virtually)
Ukrainian Arbitration Association Webinar: Young and Ingenious Arbitration Centers in Eurasia
Speaker – GIAC Perspectives
April, 2020 (Tbilisi, Georgia)
DRBF Central and Ester European Annual Conference
Speaker – FIDIC Claims – Procedure, Georgian Law requirements
October, 2019 (Tbilisi, Georgia)
GIAC Arbitration Days 2019 – ICC – GIAC Panel
Speaker – Regional Development of Arbitration
April, 2019 (Paris, France)
Paris Arbitration Week – Arbitrating in CEE&CIS: Transparency, Accountability and choice of Arbitrators
Speaker – Institutional perspective
September, 2017 (Minsk, Belarus)
UNCITRAL – GIAC workshop for judges on New York Convention 1958
Trainer
December, 2016 (Tbilisi, Georgia)
GIAC Arbitration Days 2016
Speaker
October, 2015 (Tbilisi, Georgia)
GIAC Arbitration Days 2015
Speaker
March, 2014 (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Tbilisi International Arbitration conference
Speaker – ‘Formation of Georgian International Arbitration Center’
February, 2013 (Tbilisi, Georgia)
International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)
Speaker – “Georgia as a Seat of Arbitration”
March, 2010 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy
Course on “Questioning of Fact Witnesses in International Arbitration”
July, 2007 (The Hague, Netherlands)
The Hague Academy of International Law
Private International Law course
Receive a full-ride scholarship sponsored by the NUFIC
Publications and other educational activities
Author:
- Arbitration Glossary in Georgian;
- Specificities of Doctrine of “Piercing the Corporate Veil” (Journal of Association of Law Firms of Georgia, vol.2, 2015, Tbilisi);
- “Arbitration Agreement in Georgian Reality”
- Claims under FIDIC Contracts.
- Co-Author of the textbook on Arbitration (2021)
Giving the lectures in difference universities on arbitration and related courses:
- Caucasus University;
- Georgian University;
- New Vision University;