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 […]
Deals & Cases / Sergej Butov, Jānis Bite, Vaiva Mašidlauskienė, Laura Matuizaitė-Mikštė, Piret Jesse, Pirkko-Liis Harkmaa, Triin Ploomipuu, Mirjam Vichmann, Liisa Maria Kuuskmaa, Marcus Niin, Andra Grünberg, Eva Lennuk, Eva Berlaus, Zanda Frišfelde, Linda Sarāne-Reneslāce, Māris Simulis, Agneta Rumpa, Līva Aleksejeva, Asta Augutytė-Rapkevičienė, Kęstutis Švirinas, Jurgita Karvelė, Kazimieras Karpickis, Stasys Drazdauskas, Auksė Trapnauskaitė, Vitalija Impolevičienė, Svetlana Rudaja, Julija Kirkilienė, Goda Drąsutė, Juliana Pavilovska, Gabrielė Raižytė, Sidas Sokolovas, Sandra Aleksandravičienė, Erikas Linkevičius, Barbora Bernatonytė, Simonas Šlitas
Certares, a US-based investment specialist dedicated to the travel, tourism and hospitality sectors, acquired a stake in Avia Solutions Group (ASG). Certares will provide a EUR 300 million structured equity investment to ASG. The transaction is subject to customary conditions and approvals and is expected to close in Q4 2021. Our pan-Baltic team conducted legal due […]
We are advising Primekss, the Latvian company active worldwide in the fibre reinforced concrete business, in securing financing from Altum (EUR 8 million) and the OP Corporate Bank plc Latvian branch to promote the further growth of Primekss. Supporting development Primekss owner Jānis Ošlejs says, “The funding from Altum equity fund for our development is vitally […]
Sorainen Latvia advised Luminor on taking over a client portfolio in Latvia from Danske Bank’s branch in Lithuania. About the transaction Rūdolfs Eņģelis, head of the firm’s Finance & Insurance practice group, commented, “It is encouraging to observe that the number of complex transactions is gradually increasing in the Latvian financial market, thus confirming the […]
We provided legal assistance and represented the client in a post-M&A dispute, which arose from foreign investment in a Latvian company. Development of the proceedings To ensure a positive outcome for the client, in national court we requested security of the claim before initiating the arbitral proceedings. Subsequently, we initiated the arbitral proceedings in the […]