We advised Lietuvos geležinkeliai ‒ the largest state-owned railway company in the Baltics ‒ on tender procedures and signing a purchase contract to electrify a major railway infrastructure corridor in Lithuania. Electrification will affect a strategically important railway line linking Klaipėda port, the main cargo and logistics centre in Lithuania, with Vilnius and Belarus. This […]
We successfully represented Eesti Kontsert (a state-owned philharmonic foundation) in a court dispute against claimants United Capital and Brutus Inkasso. In 2017, United Capital procured several performance tents and stages, including an outdoor opera house for Saaremaa Opera Days, the most popular opera festival in the Baltics. Due to serious deficiencies and lack of quality […]
We are pleased to announce that four of our integrated arbitration team’s practitioners are featured in the Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration guide. Connectedness and collaboration helped our regional international arbitration practice become one of the first teams from the Baltics and Belarus to join these prestigious ranks. Who’s Who Legal named the following four of […]
A foreign company represented by our team won a dispute in the Lithuanian Court of Appeal whose decision forms new case law exempting creditors from stamp duty if claiming annulment of transactions when bankruptcy proceedings are initiated against natural persons. So far the practice has been applied only in the case of bankruptcy of legal […]
Publication / Karin Madisson, Liisa-Maria Puur, Häli Sokk, Nele Suurmets, Dr Mari Agarmaa, Vladislav Leiri, Gerda Jokubauskaitė, Jurgita Nikita, Jonas Kiauleikis, Liutauras Vasiliauskas, Agnietė Venckienė, Aurelija Daubaraitė, Jurgita Tekorienė, Laura Matukaitytė, Tatsiana Zubarava, Alesia Khadasevich, Aliaksei Daryin, Ann Laevskaya, Artem Melnikovich, Alexey Anischenko, Alexey Fidek, , Maksim Salahub, Maria Rodich, Oliver Ämarik, Dr Carri Ginter, Paul Künnap, Toms Kārlis Broks, Edvīns Draba, Zanda Frišfelde, Valts Nerets, Krista Niklase, Raivo Raudzeps, Augustas Klezys, Algirdas Pekšys
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