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Contrarian Ventures, advised by Sorainen, won a tender to become manager of a venture capital fund established by Lietuvos Energija. The state-owned energy company invested EUR 5 million in the fund. The same amount is expected to be attracted from other investors. The total amount of the fund could reach EUR 10 million. The fund […]
	 
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Sorainen assisted the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance in issuing two (ten and thirty–year) Eurobonds and borrowing EUR 750 million and EUR 550 million accordingly. The ten-year EUR 750 million Eurobond will have the lowest coupon in the country’s history at 0.95%. The Eurobond has been issued at a yield of 1.129% and an issue price […]
	 
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Sorainen advised the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance working in cooperation with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on implementing a project aimed at introducing covered bonds and securitisations in Lithuania, and providing a roadmap for the redrafting of relevant laws. This project is one of the priorities set in the programme of the […]
	 
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            Deals & Cases   / Tomas Kontautas, Vytautas Sabalys, Laura Matukaitytė           
        
        Sorainen advised IBS Lithuania in the process of obtaining an e-money licence from the Bank of Lithuania. The company will be administering payment systems that allow rapid and inexpensive money transfers from Europe to Asia and vice versa. The payment systems will enable opening electronic accounts, issuing e-money, saving money and providing payment services. IBS […]
	 
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Sorainen Lithuania advised DNB Bank ASA (Norway), the largest financial services group in Norway, on the grant of a loan to Norwegian real estate development group Schage for development of the Quadrum business centre in Vilnius. Quadrum is the first business centre in Lithuania designed and built according to the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment […]