The deeply integrated tax team at Ellex is well versed in assisting multinationals and blue-chip companies with foreign investments, structuring, and more general day-to-day tax matters. Acquisitions, project financings, and implementations of employee equity participation plans are also areas of expertise, with several recent matters taking place in the real estate and financial services sectors. Senior counsel Eduards Dzintars heads up the team, leveraging his wide-reaching experience in tax disputes and cross-border transactions. Head of real estate Ivars Pommers, and co-founders Filips Klavins  and Raimonds Slaidiņš also support.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Good practice for: listening to our needs, providing professional advice, speedy responses.’

  • ‘Alert and quick responses make us feel prioritised and well-served.’

  • ‘Eduards Dzintars is a very business-minded lawyer who provides comprehensive tax advice.’

Key clients

  • Printful
  • Sanofi
  • Whirlpool
  • Booking.com
  • Coca-Cola HBC
  • Nokia
  • Citibank
  • Accenture
  • Intel
  • Danone
  • Henkel
  • Airbnb
  • L’Oréal
  • PayRay
  • Saint Gobain

Work highlights

  • Advising Eesti Gaas on signing an agreement with Latvijas Gāze to acquire Gaso for €120m.
  • Advising Printful on various tax matters.
  • Advising Draugiem Group on investing €1.14m in cosmetics company Prime Prometics.

Lawyers

Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Eduards Dzintars

Other key lawyers

Ivars Pommers, Filips Klavins, Raimonds Slaidiņš