Although the total value of the largest published transactions has not been that huge in Latvia in 2021, the volume of the deal activity has still been impressive, keeping M&A advisors very busy, notes Eva Berlaus, head of our Corporate and M&A practice group in Latvia. Large multi-nationals looking for manufacturing targets in Latvia An […]
Mergers and acquisitions activity in 2021 not only easily surpassed the pre-pandemic level, but also hit the all-time record by a considerable margin (the previous deal count record was exceeded by more than 50%). There were a number of factors that contributed to such an extraordinary rise. Due to the pandemic, some deals from 2020 […]
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 […]
Last year was a record one in terms of activity for all leading deal advisors on the Baltic market – this is evidenced in the fact that, according to Mergermarket, by deal count three Baltic law firms were at the top of the league tables for CEE advisors. Considering how small the Baltic region is […]
As part of an assignment for an international private equity player seeking to acquire a target in Latvia, in addition to the standard legal due diligence process usually conducted prior to M&A transactions, we also conducted a compliance review, focusing on the corruption risks, AML risks, anti-trust risks and corporate governance risks of the target […]