Joint Ventures, Corporate Structures & Reorganisation

When our clients wish to enter a joint venture, we help establish the best course and map it all out: from identifying and documenting each shareholder’s expectations and inputs all the way to working out possible exits from the joint venture. We like to make every detail perfectly clear – the contributions of each party, their rights to nominate members of managing bodies, decision-making, share transfers, drag- and tag-alongs and other related rights and obligations – so that you are equipped for any eventuality.

We excel at complex cross-border mergers, where we connect our international resources for maximum competence and efficiency. In cases of reorganisation we focus on whether the current corporate structure is supporting the client’s business or should be changed – for example, by splitting up different lines of business, or by merging companies that are involved in the same kind of business. We often proactively suggest carrying out a reorganisation so that matters can be solved before they become issues – by making structures more efficient or less risky – or saving capital by restructuring.

We can help you with

  • Joint ventures and partnerships
  • Shareholder relations
  • Shareholders agreements
  • Cross-border mergers and restructuring of group companies
  • Local reorganisations, including mergers, demergers, spin-offs, transformations
  • Intra-group share and asset deals, transfers of enterprise
  • Corporate restructuring

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Experience

  • Legal Adviser

    Nasdaq

    Assisting on cross-border merger of the central securities depositories of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Latvian entity Nasdaq CSD SE, advising on both regulatory and corporate matters

  • Legal Adviser

    Nordea

    Advising on combining operations with DNB bank in the Baltics to create Luminor bank. Advice included banking, finance, corporate, competition, regulatory, intellectual property and employment related issues

    EUR 13 billion (combined asset value)
  • Legal Adviser

    ERGO

    Advising on cross-border merger of Baltic insurance operations into a European Company (SE) registered in Estonia with branches in Latvia and Lithuania

  • Legal Adviser

    IF Insurance

    Advising on the first cross-border merger of regulated financial companies in the Baltics after implementation of the EU Cross-Border Merger Directive

  • Legal Adviser

    Mondelēz International

    Advising on Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Belarusian aspects of the combination of its global coffee business with D.E. Master Blenders 1753 to create JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS, to become the world's leading pure-play coffee company with annual revenues of over EUR 5 billion

  • Legal Adviser

    Food Union

    Advising Food Union and its Premia subsidiaries on an internal cross border merger whereby Premia KPC in Lithuania and the former holding company Nordic Foods Holding in Estonia merged with Premia Tallinna Külmhoone in Estonia

  • Legal Adviser

    Primekss

    Assisting top innovative Latvian company in the building industry with corporate reorganisation of two of its group companies in Latvia with the aim of optimising group setup

  • Legal Adviser

    Eesti Gaas

    Advising on corporate restructuring project for Estonia’s main natural gas wholesaler and retailer which also owns Estonian transmission and main distribution networks

    approx EUR 60 million