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Court of first instance ruling in favour of our clients in a case concerning criminal property
We are helping clients, companies registered in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands belonging to a real estate development group, to recover approximately 11 million EUR seized in Latvia as part of criminal proceedings. The clients’ funds were considered to be suspect and potentially related to money laundering activities, as the companies’ business activities are […]
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Bitė Group announces EUR 920 million senior secured notes issue
We advised Bitė Group, the leading telecommunications and media group in the Baltics, on a EUR 920 million senior secured notes issue. The issue was a record for the Baltic States. Its distribution was very successful, with a sell-out in 3 days. ‘The senior secured notes issue we are launching today is an appraisal of […]
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A fair settlement reached for If P&C Insurance
Sorainen’s team of lawyers successfully represented the insurance company If P&C Insurance AS in legal proceedings which involved complicated issues of insurance law, regulation of consumer rights, competition law, and the boundary between civil proceedings in court and supervision by supervisory authorities during administrative proceedings. The proceedings also involved a number of complex procedural issues, […]
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Conexus Baltic Grid prepares up to EUR 80 million bond programme
We acted as transaction counsel in the up to EUR 80 million bond programme for Conexus Baltic Grid, a unified natural gas transmission and storage operator in Latvia. The Bond programme was arranged by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB Helsinki Branch. For the time being Conexus Baltic Grid has decided to postpone its inaugural first issue. […]
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Spanish-based IT & telecommunications group entity recovers EUR 1 million
We assisted the client, a business established in Hong Kong belonging to a group of Spanish-based IT and telecommunications entities, in recovering funds (approx. EUR 1 million) that were arrested in Latvia as part of criminal proceedings. The client’s funds were considered to possibly be suspicious and relating to money-laundering activities. In the past couple […]