Sorainen assisted the retail footwear chain Batų kalnas in a case concerning illegal use of its trademark. The trademark was illegally used in a fraud on Instagram social network, when scammers set up a fake Batų kalnas profile and invited people to become influencers for the footwear brand. In order to stop illegal use of […]
Deals & Cases / Reimo Hammerberg, Jane Eespõld, Paul Künnap, Piret Lappert, Kätlin Krisak, Dr Kadri Härginen, Kaspar Endrikson, Cathriin Majas, Kai Vainola, Hanna Pahk, Olivia Kranich, Mirjam Vichmann, Tea Kookmaa, Lise-Lotte Lääne, Britta Retel, Dr Kaido Künnapas
Sorainen together with Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton acted as legal advisor to the international syndicate of banks consisting of Citigroup, Carnegie Investment Bank, Erste Group, Swedbank and LHV in the first IPO of a state-owned entity in Estonia since 1999 and the first Estonian IPO with an international element since 2012. The shares of Port […]
Mobile payment platform MoQ has launched its activities in Lithuania. The platform is managed by Mobilieji mokėjimai, a company founded by three biggest competitors in Lithuanian telecommunications sector – Telia Lietuva, Tele2 and Bitė Lietuva. This is the first mobile payment platform in the Baltics and the first such project in European practice to be […]
On 23 February 2018, the European Central Bank (ECB) determined that ABLV Bank, then the third largest bank in Latvia, was failing or likely to fail in accordance with the Single Resolution Mechanism Regulation. The ECB also determined that ABLV Bank Luxembourg, a subsidiary of the Latvian bank, was failing or likely to fail. The […]
Sorainen has been advising Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on contracting Swiss-based ALSO Holding to run its sales and services business in Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus. US-based HPE provides IT, technology and enterprise products, solutions and services worldwide. ALSO Holding offers services at all levels of the ICT value chain. Under the agreement, ALSO will set […]