Sorainen assisted Vinted, the largest and most successful Lithuanian start-up in recent years, to successfully obtain a ruling from the State Social Insurance Fund Board on the preferential treatment of employee stock options for tax purposes. Strong argumentation in the inquiry to the State Social Insurance Fund Board led to the authority approving Vinted’s position […]
Sorainen Latvia has drafted anti-money laundering (AML) policies and procedures for several non-banking institutional clients. This required extensive analysis of the clients’ business to ensure that AML law requirements are properly complied with and that, from the client’s commercial point of view, the requirements for AML do not materially affect the clients’ business (for instance, […]
Sorainen economic and white collar crime resolution specialists assisted DISTRIPATES GESTION ET PARTICIPATIONS, a French distributor of frozen products for professionals in the bakery and pastry business, in asset recovery. The case involved a cross-border criminal investigation for fraudulently transferred funds and attempted money laundering. Sorainen’s help involved representation of the client as a victim […]
In protecting the principles of a democratic society and media independence, SORAINEN is providing pro bono legal assistance to the newspaper BAUSKAS DZĪVE (BDz) in its fight with Iecava Regional Council (Council) over publishing of journalistic articles and advertising in the municipal newspaper Iecavas Ziòas. BDz has asked the Council to stop publishing these items […]
Sorainen Belarus advised Nuance Communications, an American multinational computer software technology corporation, on Belarusian aspects of acquisition of TouchCommerce, a technology partner and leader in digital customer service and engagement solutions. The team, which included partner Maksim Salahub, associates Kirill Laptev and Nadezhda Fomenok, conducted a limited due diligence of TouchCommerce operations in Belarus, reviewed the intragroup contractual […]
