We assisted Turkey Wealth Fund (TWF) in obtaining approval from the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of the Republic of Belarus for the acquisition of control over Belarusian Telecommunications Network CJSC (BeST), one of three Belarusian mobile network operators and a member of Turkcell group. Approval was requested in the context of the acquisition […]
We advised entertainment business group Seven Entertainment and its shareholders in negotiations on the sale of its multi-purpose arenas, ticket distribution, advertising services and event organization business to DG21, which is controlled by G. Žiemelis. The transaction will be completed after clearance by the Competition Council. The Seven Entertainment Group includes companies owning and managing the […]
We advised Aristocrat Digital, an Australian gambling machine manufacturer, in a strategic investment in Neskin Games, a game development studio based in Minsk, Belarus. “Investment in Neskin follows a long-standing development relationship including the successful launch of Big Fish Games’s recent new game EverMerge”, comments Michael Lang, CEO at Aristocrat Digital. A cooperation partner of […]
Our pan-Baltic team as local counsel working with DLA Piper as lead counsel assisted Polhem Infra on its acquisition of Telia Carrier, a world-leading provider in backbone connectivity for data traffic. With this acquisition, Polhem Infra, through Telia Carrier, will own and operate more than 74,000 km of fibre network with 320 connection points globally. […]
We assisted SIA Novadu Ziņas, which publishes the regional newspaper Neatkarīgās Tukuma Ziņas, to address the Competition Council regarding suspicion of a violation of the principle of neutrality in competition in municipal operations and creating advantages for another regional newspaper. The principle of neutrality in competition is a norm that was included in the Competition […]