---
title: "Business Disputes"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/dispute-resolution-and-litigation-en/business-disputes-en"
field: "Dispute Resolution & Litigation"
description: "Business disputes in Georgia: challenging corporate decisions, dominant shareholder liability and shareholder derivative claims. Help from Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-15"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Business Disputes

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## The Legal Framework of Business Disputes and Their Participants

Business disputes are conflicts arising from entrepreneurial activity, concerning both internal relationships of a society — between partners, shareholders and management organs — and its relations with creditors and third parties. Article 2 of the Georgian Law on Entrepreneurs defines the concept of the entrepreneur: an entrepreneur is a natural or legal person who has an enterprise, and an enterprise is an organised system for carrying out entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurial activity is lawful, non-repeated, independent and organised activity carried out with the aim of obtaining profit. Understanding this framework matters: the participant's status determines who may defend, against whom and by which remedies.

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### What does the field of business disputes cover?

Business disputes cover conflicts arising from entrepreneurial activity: relations between partners and shareholders, challenges to decisions of management organs, claims for compensation of damage and disputes with creditors.

### What is the difference between an individual entrepreneur and a society?

An individual entrepreneur is not a legal person and answers personally, with all of his or her property, for entrepreneurial obligations before the creditor. An enterprise society is a legal person and answers with its own property.

### Can a missed challenge deadline be restored?

No. When challenging a corporate decision, restoration of a missed deadline is not allowed, so the application must be made in time — as a rule within one month from the moment of knowledge.

### How does the law protect a minority shareholder?

The law imposes on the dominant shareholder the obligation to compensate damage caused by deliberate abuse of a dominant position and grants the shareholder the right to bring a derivative claim for the benefit of the society.