Gints Vilgerts
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Client SatisfactionVILGERTS‘s corporate and commercial practice acts in both contentious and non-contentious matters across a variety of different industries, including IT, telecoms, technology, real estate, construction, retail, aviation, manufacturing, rail, and energy. The team has advised on several complex, high-profile local and cross-border matters. Practice heads Gints Vilgerts and Reinis Sokolovs both have respectable track records across a broad range of corporate and M&A matters. Previous co-head Elīza Grīnvalde departed the firm in May 2024 for an in-house position.
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‘The team of lawyers is a balance between experts in commercial practice, competition, and EU law, which provides the opportunity to achieve results in a short time.’
‘Three things: Attitude, deadlines, and confidentiality.’
Key clients
- Air Baltic Corporation AS
- BAO
- BPM Capital OÜ
- Capital AS
- East Capital Real Estate AS
- Ekspress Grupp AS
- Manitou Group
- Metsa Forest Latvia SIA
- Stockmann Oyj Abp
- Sveaskog Baltfor SIA
- GroGlass
- DECATHLON SA
- Summus Capital OÜ
- Banderi S.IDE SIA
- Anodox AB
- Antares Venture Capital AS
- Bolt
- C&D Style SIA
- Crayon Latvia SIA
- Family Law Digital SIA
- FlaktGroup Baltics UAB
- Frode Laursen A/S
- KE Trading SIA
- VT EAST SIA
- Baltic Dairy Board SIA
- Citco
- Capital Handling SIA
- DOKUMEDS SIA
- EPAM Systems SIA
- FRACHT SIA
- GIVEN Jewellery AS
- Happy Fish SIA
- If P&C Insurance AS Latvijas filiāle
- Latvijas Mobilais Telefons SIA
- Lidl Latvija SIA
- Longo Group AS
- Stenders SIA
- TWINO Investments AS
- KE Trading SIA
- Riga Bulk Terminal SIA
- Adaptive Media SIA
- Hausers Grupp Osaühing
Work highlights
- Advised East Capital Real Estate Fund IV on the various legal aspects of its EUR83m acquisition of 100% of the shares in Deglava Real Estate SIA.
- Advised the founders of Adaptive Media, an international ecommerce company, on the sale of a majority of shares to the Merito investment fund.
- Represented BAO AS, a leading Latvian waste management company, in its filing of an appeal to the Procurement Monitoring Bureau regarding the results of a high-profile tender.
Lawyers
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Gints Vilgerts, Reinis Sokolovs