Our pan-Baltic team as local counsel working with DLA Piper as lead counsel assisted Polhem Infra on its acquisition of Telia Carrier, a world-leading provider in backbone connectivity for data traffic. With this acquisition, Polhem Infra, through Telia Carrier, will own and operate more than 74,000 km of fibre network with 320 connection points globally. […]
We assisted SIA Novadu Ziņas, which publishes the regional newspaper Neatkarīgās Tukuma Ziņas, to address the Competition Council regarding suspicion of a violation of the principle of neutrality in competition in municipal operations and creating advantages for another regional newspaper. The principle of neutrality in competition is a norm that was included in the Competition […]
Sorainen associate Olga Solovyanchik contributed to the 2020 edition of the Energy Investment Risk Assessment – a report by the Energy Charter Secretariat evaluating the investment climate in the energy sector in 30 countries from all over the world. For the third year in a row, Belarus’ overall risk level was identified as low. The […]
Our team advised on establishing the State Aid Fund for Business which will invest public and private funds in medium and large enterprises affected by Covid-19. This is the first fund of its kind in the Baltic states. The planned size of the fund’s investment portfolio is EUR 1 billion. The Lithuanian government will provide […]
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While globally the total number of M&A (mergers and acquisitions) deals continues to fall in 3Q of 2020, the number of the largest and most complex deals (with disclosed values of USD 5 billion or more) have skyrocketed. Not since 4Q of 2015 have so many large deals been announced, writes Mergermarket, the leading provider […]