Cobalt

Corporate and M&A, Real Estate and Construction, IP, IT and Regulatory

Guntars Zīle is a Partner and Head of M&A practice group at COBALT Latvia. He has more than 20 years of experience in transactional work and has represented numerous local, as well as multinational companies and PE funds (like Marguerite, East Capital, BaltCap, Stora Enso, AXA Private Equity, Carlsberg, MISC Berhad, etc) in large scale M&A transactions. Guntars also advises on product and service liability and safety matters and performs regulatory work for manufacturers of the pharmaceuticals and healthcare service providers.

Partner and Head of M&A practice group (since 2008); Legal advisor to the board, Latvian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (since 2021)

Latvian, English and Russian

Latvian Bar Association (since 1999); International Bar Association (since 2007); International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (since 2011); Riga TechHub Founder Member (2012)

LL.M., University of Latvia, Faculty of Law (2001); LL.B., University of Latvia, Faculty of Law (1999)