Practice
areas.
Corporate.
Hansa Law Offices provides advice in all aspects of general corporate law.
Our services include establishment and registration of companies and subsidiaries and branches of
foreign companies in Latvia, general advice on corporate and share capital structures, shareholder
matters and stock exchange matters, corporate governance issues, reorganisations and joint ventures.
General Commercial.
Our legal practice includes drafting of a wide range of commercial contracts from simple ones to
negotiating and structuring complex multi-million euro transactions, including sale, supply, purchase,
distribution, agency and licensing agreements.
Mergers and Acquisitions.
Hansa Law Offices advises local and international companies on mergers and
acquisitions, takeovers, capital placements, stock exchange issues and company law. The experience
of our lawyers in representing the sellers, buyers, financiers and management allows them to be part
of a team with the customer and other advisers and to provide both legal expertise and commercial
approach to the transaction and the ability to find solutions.
Due Diligence
Hansa Law Offices have prepared a number of legal due diligences
for mergers and acquisitions, asset purchase, real property purchase, financing and other transactions.
Real property and Construction
Hansa Law Offices provides advice to local and regional authorities, private
property developers and building contractors as well as sellers of property and property investors.
Our office has accumulated a considerable knowledge of the legal implications of the purchase, sale,
development and leasing of real property, including financing and re-financing.
Our experience related to dispute resolution is valuable, but, more importantly, we avoid disputes by
taking a professional approach to the drafting of contracts and performing the necessary registrations with
the Land Book to protect the interests of our clients.
Previous projects performed by our lawyers involve the development and further sale
of an office complex, shopping centres and an industrial estate as well as we have assisted our
clients in drafting different kinds of real property lease and purchase agreements.
Employment and Labour Law
Hansa Law Offices offers advice to local and foreign employers on all aspects of
employment law, inter alia including individual contracts for employment or services and collective agreements.
Latvian labour legislation is complicated and it is not only the employment terms and conditions
between the employer and the employee which should be taken into account. Hansa Law Offices has
experience in all aspects of employment, including drafting employment contracts (also for managers and CEO),
dismissals, employee termination claims, mergers and acquisitions (including participation in due diligence
investigations), litigation and arbitration.
Competition Law
Hansa Law Offices advises Latvian and international companies and institutions
on all aspects of competition law, including the relations with the Latvian competition and supervisory authority.
We assist customers in the drafting of competition clauses of the contracts, we give advice on notification
requirements to the Latvian competition and supervisory authority and in cooperation with the
client we implement structures which are designated to avoid elements likely to distort competition.
Banking and Finance
Hansa Law Offices lawyers have represented clients in a number of financial transactions,
involving corporate finance, lending and borrowing. We also provide advice on the best security to be
established to secure the transaction.
Hansa Law Offices lawyers have established an excellent working relationship with regulatory
and other relevant government agencies.
Litigation and Arbitration
Hansa Law Offices has a considerable experience at all levels of Latvian court system,
including arbitration proceedings. Our office is particularly involved in the contractual disputes, it
litigates in specific areas such as debt collection, real property ownership issues, labour and employment.
It is always important for a party to obtain
advice from an experienced and knowledgeable litigator. Hansa Law Offices always focuses to the strategic elements of the
case and is aware of the uncertain factors and side effects of
the legal proceedings.
