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Ober-Haus: Baltic real estate market still challenging, but opportunities open up
Ober-Haus presents its annual real estate market report for 2024 on the capital cities of the Baltic countries. The report covers the office, retail, warehousing, residential and land markets in each of the capital cities: Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. Our Baltic-wide team of real estate legal experts prepared legal notes for the report. Baltic real […]
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ECBC publishes 2023 Edition of European Covered Bond Fact Book
European Covered Bond Council (ECBC) published the 2023 Edition of the European Covered Bond Fact Book. This book is intended to be a benchmark and comprehensive source of information on the covered bond asset class. This 18th edition of the ECBC European Covered Bond Fact Book builds on the success of previous editions. Sorainen lawyers […]
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Sorainen Partner Paul Künnap: Let’s build a metro in Tallinn!
Tallinn should take after Helsinki and build a metro in Tallinn, our partner Paul Künnap has suggested in the Estonian daily Eesti Päevaleht. Building a metro in Tallinn is not something that is currently discussed in Estonia, but Paul says it would give Tallinn a huge boost. Paul debunks three myths that naysayers have used […]
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M&A and private equity market in the Baltics – Estonia hit hardest by crises while Lithuania reaches record deal value
Following a booming 2021, the Baltic M&A market unsurprisingly slowed down both by transaction numbers and values in 2022 in response to the global economic downturn, the energy crisis, rising interest rates and geopolitical tensions triggered by the Russian war in Ukraine. Thankfully, the sanctions against Russia have had little effect on deals and businesses […]
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M&A market trends in the Baltics in H1 2022: healthy activity levels, though lower than record boom in 2021
In the first half of this year, 54 transactions were announced in the Baltic M&A market, with a total value of EUR 1 billion, according to Mergermarket, indicating that levels of activity are healthy*. “It’s a myth that the region’s M&A market has cooled down as scared investors stay away,” concludes Laimonas Skibarka, managing partner […]