Employment

Cobalt

Client Satisfaction

Cobalt‘s employment and immigration practice boasts an impressive client base, which includes major players, such as Hugo Boss and Johnson & Johnson, from a broad spread of industries. Alongside traditional areas, the team often assists with the relevant asepcts of complex restructurings and M&A deals, as well as advising on immigration-related matters, sanctions compliance, and employee misconduct. Collective and individual redundancies are also core areas of expertise. Toms Šulmanis leads the team, ably supported by Kristine Patmalniece and Ivo Maskalāns.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

‘The Cobalt employment practice has exceptional knowledge for the complex matters in the field of employment. Their expertise is business-oriented, and they always provide pros and cons for various scenarios of the outcome.’
‘The individuals are easy to approach on employment-related matters.'
'Toms Sulmanis has experience in complex deals and solutions in various litigations and negotiations concerning employment. He is always fast to respond and provides excellent management skills for the resolution of the problems.'
'Ivo Maskalāns has exceptional knowledge in the field of employment and always provides his expertise in all levels of complexity. His way to approach the case is always business oriented, maintaining high ethical and legal standards.’

Key clients

Goodyear
Cabot
Hugo Boss
Johnson & Johnson
Intrum
Evolution Latvia
Fragomen LLP
Volvo Truck Latvia
Solvay

Work highlights

Advised a major Latvian furniture manufacturing company on the restructuring of its remuneration system.
Assisting Fragomen LLP with obtaining residence and work permits for employees.
Advising Nutricia on Danone the employment law aspects of its intra-group restructuring in Latvia.