Vakhtang Gamtsemlidze rejoined Nodia, Urumashvili & Partners in 2017. Prior to rejoining the firm, he served as Head of Legal, External Affairs, and Security at British American Tobacco from 2009, overseeing commercial and corporate law, M&A, regulatory issues, compliance, reputation, and security across eight markets in the Caucasus and Central Asia. In this role, he effectively led a large team of lawyers across different jurisdictions to meet business objectives.

Before 2009, Vakhtang was a Senior Lawyer at Nodia, Urumashvili & Partners, and served as an Arbitrator at the Dispute Resolution Center while providing legal advice to various businesses in Georgia.

Areas of Practice
• Commercial, Corporate, and M&A
• Intellectual Property
• Employment

Education
• Utrecht University: LLM (2007)
• Tbilisi State University: Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Law (2003)

Languages
• Georgian
• English
• Russian