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Aku Sorainen shares our firm’s story in an interview with Globe Law and Business
Globe Law and Business interviewed our firm’s founder and senior partner Aku Sorainen for their Special Report The People Who Run Law Firms: Lessons Learned from Law Firm Leaders. In the interview, Aku shares our firm’s story – how the firm was founded in all the Baltic states, the ups and downs, the lessons we […]
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CEE Deal of the Year award for Lithuania goes to Sorainen
CEE Legal Matters presented our team with the 2020 CEE Deal of the Year award for Lithuania for our work on the initial public offering (IPO) of state-owned energy company Ignitis Group. During the largest ever IPO in the Baltic States, the group raised EUR 450 million. The company’s shares were listed on the Nasdaq […]
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Important court ruling over challenging the validity of transactions formed under the influence of a mistake
The Lithuanian Court of Appeal ruled in favour of our client, the bankrupt credit union Taupkasė (the bankruptcy administrator is Klaipėdos Administratorių Biuras), in a case brought by ten credit union shareholders over recognising a credit union share as a deposit. Although the court of the first instance ruled in favour of the claimants – […]
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Global data transfers: essential points
Recently we celebrated the anniversary of the GDPR coming into force (May 25th), and we would like to remind you of key issues for those transferring data overseas. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) divides the world into two parts: a) The European Economic Area (EEA), where there are no particular barriers to the processing […]
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Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 11 – Meir Linzen
Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 11 – with Meir Linzen, a chairperson of the leading Israeli law firm Hercog Fox & Neeman. Among many topics Meir told one of the most interesting tax stories, and we discussed how fair the progressive income tax is: https://tax-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/israel-how-can-i-pay-23-while-my-secretary-40