Ekaterine is the managing partner of Shanidze and Nikoladze Law Group. She founded the company together with Tamar Nikoladze in January 2017 and still successfully manages the company’s activities.

She has more than sixteen years of work experience in both the private and public sectors. At various times Ekaterine has worked in the Supreme Court, the Parliament of Georgia, the Georgian Railway, the Tbilisi Metro, the Tbilisi Transport Company, the Bank of Georgia, Toyota Center Tegeta, and Tegeta Motors. During totally more than 8 years of holding the position of Head of Legal Department at public transport operator company (Metro and later TTC), crucial reforms were implemented by the company. The time-period she was in the mentioned position, is marked as the starting point of the most important reforms in public transport of Tbilisi. The legal assistance of the above-mentioned reforms was served by her, including the restructuring of the Tbilisi Metro LLC in 2006, bus route optimization process In 2010, the introduction of a new tariff scheme for municipal public transport in 2012. And until January 2020, she was the General Counsel of Tegeta Motors and its subsidiaries.