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On 18 January 2018, the Latvian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (LVCA) and the private investor association Latvian Business Angel Network (LatBAN) held a joint “Investor of the Year” event, when Sorainen was awarded the title of legal adviser of the year for assisting Providence Equity Partners in its acquisition of the Baltic companies of the […]
Sorainen advised insurance broker company Aon Baltic in acquiring 100% shares in Balto Link. This is the largest acquisition deal in the Baltic brokerage business in recent years. The acquisition was completed on 28 December 2017. Total value is not disclosed. Aon Baltic is the biggest insurance broker company operating in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. […]
Deals & Cases / Sergej Butov, Deimantė Pagirienė, Juliana Pavilovska
Sorainen is advising Elektrobalt and the Würth Group on the acquisition of Gaudrė, a leading company in the lighting solutions market in Lithuania. Elektrobalt together with W.EG. Eesti in Estonia and Baltikelektro in Latvia, represents the Würth Electrical Wholesale Group (W.EG) in the Baltic States. Serving customers in the residential, infrastructure and industrial markets, Elektrobalt […]
Sorainen assisted CGTrader, a company managing the 3D models online marketplace, in attracting a EUR 2 million investment. At this stage the main investor is Estonian venture capital fund Karma Ventures. CGTrader is one of the biggest 3D model marketplaces in the world. Currently it offers almost 600,000 models and has over 1.1 million users. […]
The Commercial Law and the Law on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (AML Law) were amended this November. The amendments exclude shareholders’ obligation under the Commercial Law to disclose their company’s beneficial owner (BO). Now, the disclosure requirement has been completely revised and transferred to the AML Law. As these amendments affect […]