Keti Toshkhua

Keti Toshkhua is a partner at LPA Law Firm. She joined LPA in 2017 as an associate and was steadily promoted, becoming a partner in 2022. Keti’s practice area focuses on corporate and commercial law, M&A, employment law, investment, competition law, and advising clients on debt financing. She also counsels clients on complex construction projects and has extensive expertise in FIDIC contract forms (Yellow Book, Red Book, and White Book), providing consultancy on compliance, risk management and claims under these frameworks.

Prior to joining the firm, Keti served as an advisor to the chief legal officer at JSC Georgian Railway, the sole railway operator in Georgia. Her professional experience also includes working as a senior lawyer at LLC GR Logistics and Terminals and chief legal officer at JSC Georgian Railway Construction (subsidiaries of Georgian Railway), where she was responsible for managing all legal matters related to the transactions and strategic projects undertaken by the company.

In addition to her legal practice, Keti currently serves as an invited lecturer at Caucasus School of Business (CSB), where she teaches Business Law to business administration students. She also served as an invited lecturer at Georgian National University (SEU) from 2017 to 2022, delivering courses in Investment Law and Common Law to master’s students in law.

With native Georgian, Keti is fluent in English and has intermediate knowledge of German and Russian languages.

EDUCATION

• LL.M. in International Commercial Law (with merit), University of Nottingham, UK (2014)
• LL.M. (with honours), Caucasus University, Georgia (2021)
• LL.B. (with honours), Caucasus University, Georgia (2013)
• Undergraduate studies (exchange program), Tallinn University of Technology, School of Law, Estonia (2010)
• Participant, summer program, Bucerius Law School, Germany (2017)

MEMBERSHIPS

• Qualified lawyer (advocate) with general specialization, admitted to the Georgian Bar Association
• Accredited arbitrator, member of the Georgian Association of Arbitrators
• Accredited mediator, member of the Georgian Association of Mediators