News / Viktorija Soņeca
In mid-March this year, Viktorija Soņeca, a PhD student at the Faculty of Law at the University of Latvia, EU Court of Justice Department Director from the Ministry of Justice, joined Sorainen’s Dispute Resolution & Risk Management team. Viktorija’s knowledge will be a superior addition to the firm’s services. She has invaluable expertise in the […]
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 […]
We are providing pro bono legal assistance to the Latvian Association of Beauticians and Cosmetologists. On 8 March 2021, the Association applied to the administrative court concerning Cabinet Regulation No. 655, “Regarding Declaration of the Emergency Situation”. In this order, the Cabinet prohibits the provision of beauty care services by beauticians and beauty care specialists […]
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 […]
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 […]