KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, invested in the Estonian startup Indoor.Ninja, a developer of cloud-based visitor management services, in an effort to improve and automate the check-in experience for office building visitors. Sorainen Estonia performed legal due diligence of the target and drafted transaction documents. The Sorainen team advising KONE included […]
Sorainen regularly advises Google on intellectual property and data protection matters. Work includes, eg, filing trademark applications, launching opposition proceedings and providing legal assessments on intellectual property protection for Google products in the Baltic States. Sorainen most recently consulted Google on launching YouTube Kids and Google Play ToS in the Lithuanian market as well as […]
Deals & Cases
Eltel has signed an agreement to sell its business operations in Estonia to Estonian Tecnolines, a company which operates in the Estonian networks design, construction and maintenance sector. Eltel’s Estonian unit comprises power, telecommunication and gas infranet services and currently employs approximately 300 people. In 2016, these operations generated net sales of EUR 26.3 million […]
News
Sorainen senior associate Artûras Asakavièius will be leading the Fintech Lithuania Group established by the Infobalt association and uniting more than twenty members. The group was established to exploit the potential of the fintech sector, currently one of the fastest growing sectors in Lithuania. A number of fintech start-ups and international companies have announced their […]
Sorainen is helping Prior Rights, an IT start-up company, with legal issues in relation to development of the client’s innovative mobile application, which aims to protect users’ copyrights on photographs. The Sorainen team is advising on the implications of use of the mobile app, copyright enforcement and data protection. Partner Agris Repšs, senior associate Andris […]