Sorainen continues supporting and defending international investors in Belarus, including by protecting their intellectual property (IP) and related rights. Below is a summary of recent legislative developments prepared by our Intellectual Property team, including parallel import, a local version of Pinocchio in the spotlight in an unfair competition case, depositing neighbouring rights and other news. […]
A resolution of the Council of Ministers of Belarus with a list of companies in which shares cannot be sold by investors from “unfriendly countries” has just been published (a specific list of investors has been provided too). This means that no state registration action reflecting changes in shareholders will be taken in respect of limited liability companies, […]
Publication / Maksim Salahub, Marina Golovnitskaya, Stefan Tomchyk, Kaupo Lepasepp, Olivia Kranich, Mirell Prosa, Oliver Kuusk, Ieva Andersone, Private: Gunvaldis Leitens, Stasys Drazdauskas, Aušrinė Dambrauskaitė
As business year 2022 is now in full swing and the global economy is continuing its recovery from what seems to have been the worst period of the pandemic, Sorainen’s intellectual property (IP) team has compiled for you the most interesting news from the Baltic States and Belarus, including the ultimate failure of the Chanel […]
In 2021, the Baltic M&A and private equity market demonstrated record activity, with the number of announced deals growing by 51% compared to 2020 and also surpassing deal activity levels in all previous years, including those preceding the start of the pandemic. As a result, we can find leading Baltic law firms among the top […]
In the past year, M&A activity in Belarus has grown beyond perhaps the wildest expectations, and the gloomy predictions of a year ago have not come true. With the internal political crisis unresolved and indeed affecting the wider region, international sanctions looming, and the domestic economy slumping again after the global recovery post-Covid, the number […]