---
title: "Medical Practice Acquisition"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/medical-practice-acquisition-en"
field: "Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Law"
description: "Acquiring a medical practice under the Georgian Civil Code: sale, transfer of rights, know-how protection and the purchase option. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-19"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Medical Practice Acquisition

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/medical-practice-acquisition-en

## Acquiring a Medical Practice: The Contract Machinery

The acquisition of a medical practice in Georgia works through the machinery of the sale contract: the norms of the Civil Code determine what is transferred to the buyer, which costs fall on the seller, and how the transferred value — including the patient base and know-how — is protected by the trade-secret regime. One thing must be said separately: the medical confidentiality duty connected with patients lives in a separate source — the Law on Medical Practice — and the acquisition transaction does not replace it.

The architecture of the transaction stands on the sale norms: the concept of sale, the transfer of rights, the duty to deliver a defect-free item, the protection of know-how, and the purchase option.

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### What is transferred on acquisition?

Property, documents and goods; rights — with substantiation of authenticity, transfer costs on the seller.

### How is the patient base protected?

By the know-how — trade-secret — regime, through measures keeping the information secret.

### What is a purchase option?

The buyer's unilateral right to acquire the subject up to a determined time or event.

### What is required on quality?

The item must be defect-free — both tangibly and legally.

### Where does the transaction begin?

With an inventory of the documents.