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Sorainen partner Toomas Prangli tops Mergermarket’s CEE 2016 legal adviser table by number of deals advised. After several years of a sluggish market, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Estonia hit a record deal volume and value in 2016. According to comments given to Estonian business daily Äripäev by Toomas Prangli, co-managing partner of Sorainen, the […]
Publication / Alexey Anischenko, Kirill Laptev
Dear clients and cooperation partners, We are pleased to provide a brief overview of the main amendments and supplements to the tax law of Belarus in effect since 1 January 2017. Transfer pricing Corporate income tax (CIT) Value added tax (VAT) Withholding tax (WHT) Special tax treatment Information exchange with tax authorities Disputes with tax authorities Changes […]
Sorainen Lithuania advised one of the largest, fastest-growing and most dynamic financial institutions in the region on an acquisition finance transaction related to the acquisition of shares in the AUGA group, in accordance with earlier signed option agreements. AUGA group shares are listed in the Baltic Secondary List of NASDAQ OMX Vilnius. The total disclosed […]
Deals & Cases / Maksim Salahub, Marina Golovnitskaya, Kirill Laptev
Sorainen Belarus supported Synopsys in the light of its acquisition of Codiscope, LLC, another US-based software company. Sorainen support included revision of the software development agreement concluded by Codiscope with a Belarusian counterparty and advising on IP transfer and licensing matters. Synopsys is the world’s 15th largest software company, established in the US, with a […]
AMC Theatres (AMC Entertainment Holdings) (‘AMC’) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the largest theatre exhibitor in seven countries in the affluent northern region of Europe, Nordic Cinema Group Holding (‘Nordic’). Nordic operates 68 theatres and has a substantial minority interest (approximately a 50% ownership) in another 50 associated theatres to which Nordic […]
