Ellex

The firm: Ellex is a circle of pre-eminent Baltic law firms providing fully integrated top legal services in all areas of business law. Ellex brings together the region’s three strongest law firms located in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Ellex is among the first law firms founded in Latvia (1992) and throughout its 25-year history has significantly influenced the development of the local legal market. The firm and its experts consistently receive top international rankings, awards and most importantly client recognition. Ellex is committed to investing time, professional knowledge, financial and human resources in a variety of pro bono, sponsorship and charitable activities

Ellex is distinguished by high-quality standards, an outstanding reputation and leading experts. In recent years, the firm has been involved in some of the most innovative domestic and international M&A, commercial real estate and financial transactions in the Baltics and is the first choice of local counsel for many well-known international and local clients for projects in Latvia. Ellex is the exclusive Latvian member of Lex Mundi – the leading international association of independent law firms, and it is also the exclusive Latvian member of the World Services Group, a global membership association whose members are among the top providers of professional business services.

Areas of practice: Ellex provides legal services in nine specialised practice areas: corporate and M&A, banking and finance, commercial and compliance, IP and IT, dispute resolution, employment, tax, EU and competition, real estate and environment. Ellex is unique in the Latvian market in having several practitioners who are trained and have experience in the major financial markets of the world, such as London and New York. For this reason, international financial institutions choose Ellex when doing business in Latvia, and on cross-border transactions. Ellex is a long-standing leading advisor in the finance and M&A sectors in Latvia and across the Baltics with a comprehensive offering and notable experience in advising international and domestic clients. Ellex has proven expertise and a track record in advising on landmark competition cases at the Competition Council and in courts, both national and European. Ellex has the capacity and expertise to handle complex or large-scale dispute resolution matters, and also the ability to provide a broad spectrum of employment services to corporate clients. The firm also has significant expertise and an increasingly visible track record in intellectual property matters, including in major litigation and landmark IP cases. Within real estate, Ellex covers all the main industry sectors and has represented clients in a number of top real estate transactions in Latvia in recent years. In addition, Ellex has an efficient, integrated and innovative tax advisory capability during all transaction processes.