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Social enterprise Visas Iespējas wins intellectual property rights dispute
We assisted the social enterprise Visas Iespējas in a dispute over intellectual property rights. Visas Iespējas is a socially driven organisation that brings together youth organisations with suitable projects, both in Latvia and internationally. Its mission is to empower each and every young person to discover the opportunities that suit them best and to realise […]
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Inter IKEA Group completes acquisition of the IKEA retail business in the Baltics
We advised Inter IKEA Group on its acquisition of the IKEA retail business in the Baltics. The purchase included three full-size IKEA stores, five additional smaller customer meeting points, the business’s e-commerce platform, and the Digital Retail Development company. Currently, the IKEA retail operations in the Baltics employ 1,450 co-workers, and 6.6 million people visited IKEA stores […]
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Assistance to VALMIERMUIŽAS ALUS brewery on protecting its label design
We advised VALMIERMUIŽAS ALUS, one of the most popular breweries in Latvia, during an intellectual property protection case. Specifically, one of the competitors of VALMIERMUIŽAS ALUS started to distribute soft drinks with a similar design of labelling to VALMIERMUIŽAS ALUS’s products. Our assistance Our assistance included the preparation of two cease and desist letters and […]
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Advocacy for value-based procurement in cooperation with AmCham Latvia and beyond
Sorainen has enjoyed a longstanding partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia (AmCham Latvia), which is being marked by a year of collaborative events. Our Sorainen experts have joined AmCham Latvia in their aim to foster mutually advantageous economic ties between the United States and Latvia. In our latest cooperative effort, we worked […]
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A fair settlement reached for If P&C Insurance
Sorainen’s team of lawyers successfully represented the insurance company If P&C Insurance AS in legal proceedings which involved complicated issues of insurance law, regulation of consumer rights, competition law, and the boundary between civil proceedings in court and supervision by supervisory authorities during administrative proceedings. The proceedings also involved a number of complex procedural issues, […]