Tbilisi, guns on tables, bodyguards, Tom Hunter and now an energy transition: Never a dull moment with Rosalie

Tbilisi, guns on tables, bodyguards, Tom Hunter and now an energy transition: Never a dull moment with Rosalie

Corporate oil and gas specialist Rosalie Chadwick is comfortable with transition. Some 25 years ago she happily made the switch from hometown Edinburgh to take her first step towards a legal career as a law undergraduate at the University of Glasgow.

Little did she know that just a few years later, as a newly qualified lawyer with McGrigors (now Pinsent Masons), her next transition would be into the much higher-octane environment of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.

Her initial assignment in 2003 was to negotiate a farm-in to the third most productive oil field in the Former Soviet Republic (FSR), but her time coincided with the Rose Revolution in Georgia, and she soon found that corporate life required her being shadowed by an armed bodyguard, and that it was not unusual at meetings for guns to be placed on boardroom tables.