Eva Berlaus

Eva Berlaus

Office Managing Partner

Ph:

+371 67 365 014
Mob: +371 29 199 293
Fax: +371 67 365 001
E-mail: eva.berlaus@sorainen.com
Office: Latvia

Practice areas:

Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Corporate, Employment, Investment Incentives, Restructuring & Insolvency, Competition, Privatisation

Languages: Latvian, English, Russian
Experience

Eva Berlaus is an office managing partner of SORAINEN Latvia and head of the Corporate Advisory Team, which includes the Corporate, Employment and Investment Incentives Practices. She also heads the M&A and Private Equity Team, which includes our M&A, Private Equity and Privatisation Practices. Eva has been practising law since 1996.

Eva has participated as counsel in major cross-border M&A deals in Latvia for both sellers and buyers and on behalf of listed and non-listed companies in business sectors such as banking, media, utilities, food, construction, property development, energy, consumer finance and environment. Eva has sound experience in advising on competition law issues relevant to merger control, asset transfer and related matters.

Eva is a recommended practitioner by leading international legal directories:

  • The Legal 500 recognises her in corporate and M&A practices describing Eva as "particularly good; brisk, [...] very articulate and always available" and "friendly, thorough, efficient, moving things forward without wasting time";
  • Chambers Global applauded her in corporate advisory practice for being "commercially minded and practical" and providing "matter-of-fact advice";
  • Chambers Europe in corporate advisory and competition practices; and
  • Best Lawyers in corporate and M&A practices.

Eva is actively involved in development of the Latvian legal system. She has also delivered presentations on business law at seminars in Latvia and throughout the Baltics. She has written articles for local and international publications on business law and co-authored the SORAINEN book Foreign Investor in the Baltics.

Education

University of Latvia, Latvia (LLB, LLM)
Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia (LLM)

Membership

Latvian Bar Association
International Bar Association

Publications

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