Corporate and M&A practice area has always been one of our core practices and our activities in the area involve legal assistance in conducting due diligence, structuring and implementing M&A deals via acquisition of shares, assets as well as providing advice and assistance on other possible matters our clients might have.
Our lawyers have considerable experience in advising and representing clients in matters related to incorporation, reorganisation and winding-up all kinds of business entities and funds. We have experience in assisting in a number of M&A transactions including share and assets transactions of leading gambling, e-commerce, insurance and leisure and entertainment companies and fuel service stations operator in Latvia as well as companies representing other industries. The work of our Corporate and M&A practice group has been commended by the most authoritative legal directories like Legal 500, IFLR 1000 and Chambers and Partners.
- General Commercial Advice
We provide legal services and assistance to our clients on a wide range of commercial transactions and day-to-day issues regardless of their complexity including consultations and assistance in choosing the most suitable form of incorporation of investment, establishing new business entities, acquiring existing ones as well as advising on general legal peculiarities and issues any foreign or local investor is ought to know.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Our M&A team is highly skilled in developing legal and investment structures for effecting an acquisition or divestiture. We help our clients to navigate through every stage of a deal from due diligence to preparation of transactions documentation, competition clearance to post-transaction transition and post-merger integration. Our focus is our clients’ business and therefore we assist our clients in structuring their deals most advantageously aiming to meet both our clients’ business and legal objectives.
- Corporate Governance
Our corporate team is well-positioned to offer full-service corporate counsel. We offer counsel and help to both public and private companies their boards and management on a wide range of corporate governance matters that confront companies and their leadership in order for our clients to achieve sound corporate governance.
- Compliance
We strive to help our clients deal effectively and creatively with regulatory and compliance issues. Our team has extensive experience in broad spectrum of fields such as insurance and financial institutions where we advise on all aspects of regulatory compliance including anti money laundering. We seek to develop sophisticated strategies and provide advice which enable our clients to focus on pursuing their business objectives.
- Restructuring and insolvency
Our practice involves providing advice and a full range of legal services on debt restructuring, corporate restructuring as well as on domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters. Our lawyers have experience in representing companies, their shareholders and board members, creditors and debtors in the restructuring and insolvency processes. We offer a specifically tailored solutions including drafting documents for courts and creditor meetings, drafting and handling filings from creditors, representation and counselling of creditors during insolvency proceedings, drafting of outlines and plans for restructuring and their coordination, and providing advice related to bankruptcy and restructuring matters.
- Capital markets
We provide our clients a comprehensive advice on broad spectrum of capital raising transactions while covering whole financing life cycle. Our advice is backed up by hands-on experience from our banking, restructuring and insolvency, regulatory and dispute resolution lawyers. We have been assisting insurers, investors and consultants.
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Vigo Krastiņš
