Latvia is an infamous unicorn in the field of arbitration because of its record-number of institutional arbitration courts. In November 2013, there were 214 arbitration courts in Latvia. Regretfully, this is not because we as a nation love arbitration that much. Liberal regulations have allowed any legal entity to establish an arbitration court which to […]
Senior associate Edvīns Draba has contributed to the joint project by INSOL Europe and LexisPSL on ‘How EU Member States recognise insolvency and restructuring proceedings of a third country’, providing an outline on the recognition of insolvency and restructuring proceedings commenced outside the European Union, and, in particular, English restructuring proceedings, in Latvia. Full report […]
I thought about who I would invite for an interview if I could invite anyone in the world, and Rita de la Feria was at the top of the list. She has been listed in the Top 50 of the most influential tax people in the world by the International Tax Review magazine. So I […]
Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. […]
Publication / Katrīna Bičevska, Agita Sprūde, Agneta Rumpa, Valts Nerets, Elvis Grinbergs, Raul Kartsep, Nils-Gregory Aer, Jürgen Adamson, Valeria Dubeshka, Palina Maslionkina, Ieva Rimavičienė
For business, dispute resolution is an unnecessary cost that must be avoided as much as possible. Experience shows that parties rarely pay much attention to the dispute resolution mechanisms in their contracts. Because of this, referring to the dispute resolution provision in a contract as the “midnight clause” or as the “champagne clause” makes perfect […]
