Sorainen

Sorainen

Private Equity & Venture Capital

We help our clients with everything from fund formation to fund investments and exits. By uniting two rather different directions – private equity and venture capital transactions (both investments and exits) and fund structuring (formation, negotiations of LPAs or fund rules, regulatory advice) – we treat these as a single business sector.

Our active participation in fund formation and regulatory matters gives us an in-depth understanding of the private equity industry’s needs. We also provide comprehensive M&A advice and transaction support to private equity and venture capital players, as well as companies seeking investments from these sectors.

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We can help you with

  • Tax and legal structuring of investment vehicles
  • Formation of investment vehicles, including licensing and fundraising
  • Structuring investments, including tax and legal matters
  • Full-scope M&A advice, including legal and tax due diligence, antitrust, negotiations at all stages with industry players and target companies
  • Exits
  • Day-to-day regulatory support
  • Acquisition financing and re-financing of portfolio companies
  • Mezzanine financing
  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Share options and management incentives
  • Management of portfolio companies

Contributing to developing the Venture Capital market

In the recent years we have established five venture-capital-orientated funds in Lithuania, contributing to the development of VC market there. We also support several startup accelerators in Estonia and Lithuania. Sorainen was also among the founders of the Baltic private equity and venture capital associations EstVCA, LVCA and LT VCA, and is on a mission to build a viable ecosystem for capital markets.

All-in-one advisors

To help clients succeed, we combine a number of the industry’s focus areas, bringing together teams of experts in various fields – from employment law to regulatory, from banking to IP, from public procurement to tax structuring – in order to be able to provide full-scope transaction support, both with the investment and divestment activities and the fund-structuring and formation stages. Seamless cooperation between all these different teams and the consolidation of international expertise is at the core of our work.

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Experience

  • Providence Equity Partners

    Separate acquisitions of Modern Times Group (MTG) Baltic current operations (now All Media Baltics) and Bitė, the second biggest mobile operator in Lithuania and Latvia

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
    EUR 115 million (MTG transaction)

  • Taxify

    Investment round led by Daimler with Didi as returning investor, with valuation reaching USD 1 billion

    Legal Adviser
    USD 175 million

  • Novalpina

    Acquisition of shares in listed Estonian gaming group Olympic Entertainment Group

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
    EUR 288 million

  • Baltcap

    Acquisition of leading Baltic property manager BPT Real Estate and sale of Kelprojektas, Lithuania’s largest infrastructure consultancy company

    Legal Adviser

  • Livonia Partners

    Separate acquisitions of Scoro, business management software provider, and Ha Serv (plus subsequent merger with Thermory) and Hortes

    Legal Adviser

  • Zubr Capital and EBRD

    Investment in Targetprocess, Belarusian product IT-company

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser

  • EBRD

    Investment in Eco Baltia, a major environment management group in the Baltics

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
    EUR 10 million

  • Bridgepoint and AMC Theatres

    Advising Bridgepoint on the acquisition of Nordic Cinema Group and, subsequently, advising AMC Theatres on acquisition of Nordic Cinema Group from Bridgepoint

    Legal Adviser

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