Our team is acting for CATA, a client for whom Sorainen obtained a landmark ruling annulling unlawful amendments to a procurement contract in favour of its competitor, for a compensation of legal expenses in that case. Latvian laws used to cap the compensation of legal expenses by the government at ca. EUR 50 per hour […]
We assisted Siemens Healthcare, a leading medtech company, in challenging the results of a tender for an MRI. The hospital procured magnetic resonance equipment for planning radiation therapy. We assisted in challenging the award, because the equipment of the winner did not meet the requirements of the technical specification and had been incorrectly evaluated. As […]
We assisted LexisNexis, a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics, with compiling a detailed analysis and overview of FDI and merger control regulations in the Baltics for their 2021 guide. Comprehensive and up to date As the EU FDI Screening Regulation entered into force last autumn, content regarding foreign direct […]
Our Latvian procurement experts provided legal assistance to a contracting authority in the defence sector in a negotiated procedure for the procurement of a certain category of military trucks. Our legal assistance included strategic advice on conducting the negotiated procedure, as well as assistance in drafting the tender documents, in particular the proposal selection criteria. […]
Sorainen helped SIA “Novadu Ziņas” – the publisher of Neatkarīgās Tukuma Ziņas – successfully defend their interests before the Latvian Media Ethics council regarding ethics violations committed by the publisher “Tukuma Balss”. Breaches of the Code of Ethics On 18 June 2020, in light of a complaint submitted by SIA “Novadu Ziņas”, the Board […]