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Sorainen has entered into a collaboration agreement with the Law Faculty of Vilnius University. Under the agreement, Sorainen will present an annual award for the best master thesis of the year from the Law Faculty on the topic of criminal law. Kæstutis Švirinas, Sorainen partner and head of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Lithuania, […]
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A seminar on “Legal weapons to fight corporate crime directed against your company” was held in Riga on November 23. The main issues covered at the seminar to take into account and keep in mind are: Ensure internal processes are working: you need to show what rules were breached. Do not act on impulse. Fate […]
Sorainen represented Meseta in a case involving the 0% VAT rate. The Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court ruled that tax administrators had unjustifiably imposed EUR 2 million in VAT, fines and interest on Meseta for allegedly unfair application of 0% VAT rates. The Court declared that the State Tax Inspectorate and other institutions that examined the […]
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Sorainen recommends that the former minority shareholders of Eesti Telekom send an application for compensation to the representatives of Telia Company AB (hereinafter Telia), because it may still take some time to reach a final resolution in the court proceedings. The court dispute between Telia and the former minority shareholders of Eesti Telekom regarding the […]
On 5 October 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) initiated case No. 56997/17 SIA Bauskas Dzīve vs Latvia based on a complaint by a regional newspaper publisher against action taken by Latvia allowing municipalities to issue their own newspapers that imitate the independent press. The complaint is based on Article 10 of the European Convention […]