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

Guntars Zīle is Partner and Head of M&A Practice Group. He has more than 18 years of experience in transactional work and has represented numerous local, as well as multinational companies and PE funds (like East Capital, BaltCap, Stora Enso, Lukoil, Severstal, AXA Private Equity, Carlsberg, MISC Berhad, etc) in large scale M&A transactions. Guntars also handles patent litigation assignments and performs regulatory work for manufacturers of the pharmaceuticals and healthcare service providers. He also has extensive experience in real estate and construction law matters and currently acts as a member of the Working Group of the Ministry of Justice for the Law Reform on Divided Property Matters.

Partner at COBALT Latvia (since 2008); Legal advisor to the board of Latvian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association

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