This February, Nauris Grigals joins the Sorainen partnership. As a result, the total number of Sorainen Latvian office partners reaches eight. Nauris will take on the role of co-head of the Corporate and M&A practice group of the Latvian office, together with the country managing partner of the Latvian office, Eva Berlaus. The Corporate and […]
We advised Portage Ventures, leader of the investment round joined by existing investors Blackfin Capital Partners and Karma Ventures, on a EUR 15 million investment into Tuum, a Tallinn-based fintech. Strengthening EU and UK presence The round will enable the core banking technology provider – formerly known as Modularbank – to continue investing in product […]
Although the total value of the largest published transactions has not been that huge in Latvia in 2021, the volume of the deal activity has still been impressive, keeping M&A advisors very busy, notes Eva Berlaus, head of our Corporate and M&A practice group in Latvia. Large multi-nationals looking for manufacturing targets in Latvia An […]
Mergers and acquisitions activity in 2021 not only easily surpassed the pre-pandemic level, but also hit the all-time record by a considerable margin (the previous deal count record was exceeded by more than 50%). There were a number of factors that contributed to such an extraordinary rise. Due to the pandemic, some deals from 2020 […]
In the past year, M&A activity in Belarus has grown beyond perhaps the wildest expectations, and the gloomy predictions of a year ago have not come true. With the internal political crisis unresolved and indeed affecting the wider region, international sanctions looming, and the domestic economy slumping again after the global recovery post-Covid, the number […]