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IP, IT and telecoms

Cobalt

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Cobalt is a key player in the region’s IP, IT and telecoms market, handling a series of contentious and non-contentious matters across a wide number of relevant sub-sectors. Clients include renowned global brands such as Airbnb, Johnson & Johnson and Sony Pictures, with work covering both transactional and regulatory mandates. The team is especially known for its work in the life sciences and pharmaceuticals spaces, both of which are sectors of particular expertise for Indriķis Liepa. Senior associate Līga Fjodorova, who acts as head of patents, trade marks and designs, is active in a number of trade mark and patent disputes. Linda Bīriņa regularly undertakes media, privacy and data protection matters. Uģis Zeltiņš is another key contact.

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  • ‘All practitioners with whom I had contact within this law firm were extremely professional. Also, the whole billing process is done according to our requirements, and they are very flexible in case of formal changes.’

  • ‘Līga Fjodorova is handling all cases very professionally. I particularly appreciate her responsiveness, reliability and competence. She is taking care of all requests in an uncomplicated way and is able to talk the "client's language". There’s no need to run after deadlines or worry about anything as a client, which is extremely valuable.’

  • ‘Good communication and quality of services provided.’

  • ‘Līga Fjodorova is dedicated, responsive and works in a structured manner.’

  • ‘Good team of people who produce high quality legal submissions.’

Key clients

  • Airbnb
  • ANDREAS STIHL
  • Bayer
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Joom
  • Maus Freres
  • Play
  • Public Broadcasters (Latvian Television and Latvian Radio)
  • Sony Pictures
  • Suzuki Motor

Work highlights

  • Advised SAMSUNG C&T on its investment and assisted with setting up a business collaboration with major Latvian industrial manufacturer Forta PRO.
  • Advised PLAY Inc., a major Japanese media technology company, on IP issues relating to the acquisition of the Latvian technology start-up SIA.
  • Advising Catchbox SIA, an Latvian-Finnish manufacturer of microphones, on its trade mark and design protection strategy in the US and Europe.

Lawyers

Leading associates
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Linda Bīriņa
Cobalt
Linda is an expert in Intellectual property and IT. She is a leading expert on media and privacy rights as well as on data protection issues. She has accumulated extensive experience by representing clients in proceedings about invoking false information, defamation and compensation for non-material damage. She provides legal assistance to local and foreign clients on data protection issues. Linda holds seminars and delivers speeches at conferences related to journalistic and mass media rights, especially protection of journalists’ information sources. Linda has also participated in international research by preparing reviews on the data protection situation in Latvia, e.g., Data Protection: Laws of the world and Data Protection & Privacy – Jurisdictional Comparisons, as well as representing Latvia in global summits on European data protection – Annual European Data Protection Intensive.
Līga Fjodorova
Cobalt
Līga Fjodorova specializes in the field of intellectual property law, commercial law, dispute resolution and international cargo shipment law. Līga is a Latvian Trade Mark Attorney and a European Trade Mark Attorney. As a leading Latvian expert in intellectual property, she represents client’s interests in difficult trademark and copyright disputes. Līga’s experience has been acknowledged at the international level. The respected directories Legal 500 and Chambers and partners have paid special attention to Līga among leading intellectual property experts in Latvia. She has also received acknowledgement by World Trademark Review as a leading lawyer in the field.
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Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Uģis Zeltiņš
Cobalt
Uģis Zeltiņš is the head of the Competition practice group at COBALT Latvia. He has extensive experience acting as a lead advisor in EU & Competition, State Aid and Public Procurement matters. Prior to joining COBALT Uģis was an advisor on European Law with the Constitutional Court of Latvia and currently he is in charge of constitutional law aspects of civil and administrative disputes handled by the office. Uģis has taught competition, EU and international law to undergraduates and has lectured on competiton and state aid to judges.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Indriķis Liepa, Līga Fjodorova, Linda Bīriņa

Other key lawyers

Uģis Zeltiņš, Agnese Gerharde

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