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PRACTICE AREAS

WE HAVE EXCELENT UNDERSTANDING OF KEY ASPECTS AND MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES OF BASIC BUSINESS

ROUTINE LEGAL SERVICES

Planning and execution of business deals, organizing negotiations.
Managing client`s legal correspondence, ensuring its compliance.
Drafting business contracts and other legal instruments.

SUPPORT FOR INVESTMENT IN LATVIA AND ABROAD

Establishing business entities in the EU and other countries, providing legal services for client company`s branches abroad.
Engaging foreign legal & tax counsels and supervising their services.
Ensuring legal protection to foreign investment in Latvia.
Effective cooperation with other legal, bookkeeping and auditing service providers.
Legal support for special economic zone and freeport merchants. Effective cooperation with other legal, bookkeeping and auditing service providers.

MERGERS & ACQUSITIONS

M&A deal planning and further execution.
Carrying out due diligence.

BUSINESS RESTRUCTURATION

Legal support in business restructuration, including conversion of company`s legal form. Filing incorporation and changes in the Trade Registry.
Assistance in acquiring business licences and permits. Registration in special registers, certification.
Planning and execution of complex deals involving numerous assets and real estate purchase.
Providing legal support in acquiring and restructuring business loans.
Registration of mortgages and commercial pledges.

TENDERS AND AUCTIONS

Consulting and representing client in public tender proceedings and disputes. Support for participation in international tenders.
Representation in and organization of auctions.

INDUSTRIES

Environmental and energy law consultations. Legal support for electricity and heat suppliers, cogeneration and trigeneration development projects.
Legal services for landowners, farmers and manufacturers.
Legal services for IT and telecommunication businesses. Legal support in startup and development projects.
Ensuring intellectual property registration and protection in Latvia, EU and other jurisdictions.

REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION

Drafting real estate purchase documentation and supervising escrow account opening.
Assistance in Notary offices and Land Register divisions.
Legal support in various construction issues and disputes.

DEBT COLLECTION

Legal support in debt collection.
Managing cross border debt collection from Latvian companies as well as debtors established abroad.

INSOLVENCY

Consultations in respect to Latvian and other EU countries` national insolvency rules, including administration process for semi-insolvent companies, as well as EU cross border insolvency proceedings.
Representing creditor`s interests in insolvency proceedings, drafting and filing creditor’s claim, assistance in liquidation process.

TAX LAW

Consultations in respect to tax law and bookkeeping rules applicable for daily business needs, as well as particular business deals, M&A and other situations.
Representing client in tax disputes before the State Revenue Service and administrative courts.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND PUBLIC LAW

Representing client in administrative actions brought before government institutions and administrative courts.
Drafting applications and complaints, acquiring certifications and references.
Contesting decisions and actions of government institutions.

EMPLOYMENT

Legal services in respect to employment law. Assistance in actions and disputes involving trade unions or Labour Inspectorate.
Drafting labour protection policies and instructions.

LITIGATION

Representing client before Latvian civil, administrative and criminal courts and courts of arbitration.
Organizing and supervising client`s actions in foreign state courts and courts of arbitration.
Representing client before the General Court of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.

MISCELLANEOUS

Consultations and assistance in obtaining residence permit in Latvia.
Representing client in protection of reputation and freedom of speech cases.
Legal support for sole traders and self-employed persons.
Consulting private individuals in respect to various civil law matters including family law and inheritance law.