Privatisation

While privatisation can be seen as a typical M&A transaction with a specific seller, it is generally more complex and involves various interest groups from the state or municipality.

Our extensive regional experience allows us to understand both sides and secure the best value for our clients — whether buying a business from a state or municipality through public tenders, initiating direct negotiations, or advising on company privatisation with proper tender processes.

In cases where there are attempts to exert political influence, clients value our impartial, locally informed legal advice, transparent operations, and expertise in handling such complexities. We achieve this in collaboration with our Government Relations team.

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We can help you with

  • Advice on privatisation procedures and process scenarios
  • Structuring privatisation transactions
  • Negotiations with privatisation agencies and governmental/municipal authorities
  • Assistance with preparing bid documentation
  • Legal and tax due diligence of enterprises or other assets under privatisation
  • Drafting and negotiating privatisation and investment agreements
  • Advice on post-privatisation business restructuring
  • Representation in privatisation-related disputes

Experience

  • Reaalprojekt

    Participating in a joint venture to privatise the land survey agency Latvijasmernieks.lv

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • Dezinfa

    Acquisition via privatisation (public auction) of pest control and disinfection services company Kauno Profilaktinės Dezinfekcijos Stotis (Kaunas Prophylactic Disinfection Station) from Kaunas city municipality

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • Latvian Privatisation Agency

    Sale to the EBRD of a minority stake (25% plus 1 share) in Citadele banka, a new bank established to take over the "healthy" assets of Parex banka during its restructuring

    Agency's Legal Adviser
  • Inspecta

    Privatisation of Tehnokontrollikeskus, an Estonian state-owned company providing mainly technical inspection and conformity assessment services

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • Ingman

    Privatisation of the largest ice cream factory in Gomel, Belarus

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • Latvian Privatisation Agency

    Privatisation of Preses nams, the largest printing house in the Baltic States

    Agency's Legal Adviser
  • Kotka Energia

    Bidding for and acquisition of Anne Soojus and Tartu Jõujaam, municipal heat supply companies in Tartu, Estonia

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • Duisburger Hafen

    Advising the world’s largest inland port in connection with acquisition of state-owned shares in the development company of the China-Belarus Industrial Park Great Stone

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser

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