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As contributors, Loze & Partners are truly pleased to bring to your attention a comprehensive business law guide prepared by ADVOC to assist you in navigating through multiple jurisdictions in Europe, South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and offers a straightforward account of the essential corporate law, tax law and employment law regulations providing investors with a direct comparison of options under consideration.  The guide is the result of cooperation of ADVOC members throughout the world, all in all 41 law firms have made their contribution, and Loze & Partners is among them.

We hope you will find the guide helpful. Download the complete Advoc_International_Business_Guide_2017.

Response to the question: “Is an employment contract validly executed if signed using an electronic signature?” published in the magazine ITiesības has been prepared by attorney at law Ilona Bauda.

Full text of the article here:

I have bought a drone. Do I need some special knowledge about its use? Should it be registered with some authority? May I fly the drone in any place? What else do I need to know to use my new purchase in accordance with law?

Response published in the magazine iTiesības has been prepared by associate attorney at law Kristaps Loze.

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It was the largest meeting of ADVOC EUROPE in recent years that gathered around 100 delegates not only from Europe, also from the US, Brazil and Australia. Lively discussions and talks, excellent leisure time, joint dinners and excursions – the participants thoroughly enjoyed it all!

A big ’thank you’ goes to DELACOUR, and partner Thomas Salicath in particular, for the excellent event.

Loze & Partners have been invited by the government of Ireland to give an expert opinion regarding procedural matters relating to an action brought in Ireland against a Latvian citizen. The expert opinion was provided by our attorney at law Uldis Freidenfelds to the High Court of Ireland via videoconference.

In mid-February, the two-day Global M&A Conference was held at the Millennium Hotel in London.

The conference was organised by long-term members of the international lawyer network ADVOC, i.e., England–based Ashfords LLP, German-based Seufert and Vandenbulke and Boels Zandersfrom the Netherlands, which specialise, inter alia, in cross-border transactions. The conference was aimed at in-house lawyers, corporate law specialists, financing experts, representatives of banks and other internationally active M&A professionals. Topics on the agenda were i.a. trends in M&A insurance, foreign investment controls, and IP and cybersecurity issues in M&A transactions. As in previous years, many industry insiders from Europe, the USA and Asia attended. Our law firm was represented by attorney at law Liga Mence.

Aleksandra and Elza had an opportunity to visit two court hearings in the Riga Regional Court and search for answers to the questions posed by a potential client. We hope that the insight into the work of a law firm and discussions with our lawyers will be of help when they will have to choose the path to follow in the future.

We wish them every success in their future endeavours!

As a result of the transaction, SIA Baltstor, which is also the owner of SIA Bauskas tirgotājs that is active in retail of daily consumer goods through shops operating under Vesko trade mark, acquired from SIA Mego all shares in SIA Lenoka that operates under MEGO trade mark. The transaction will certainly contribute to the competition between the strong market players operating under the brand names of RMI and MAXIMA.

Congratulations to our client on successful implementation of such a large-scale transaction and we are happy for professional performance of our competition lawyers Jānis Loze, Līga Mence and Kristaps Loze.

Recently published Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All, a World Bank (the WB) Group flagship publication, shows that Latvia has improved its ranking and ranks 14^th. The rise was fuelled by improved availability of credit references and reforms made to simplify the tax payment system.

The annual Doing Business measures regulations affecting areas of the life of a business, from starting a business to such daily activities as trading across borders, paying taxes and resolving insolvency.

Such report requires considerable work contributed by professionals from diverse areas. This year, contributors included 12,500 lawyers, accountants, judges, engineers, architects, entrepreneurs and state officials from 190 countries worldwide, and lawyers of Loze & Partners  (attorneys at law Ilona Bauda and Jānis Loze as well as lawyer Kristaps Loze, who investigated legal framework in construction) were among them.

The WB has appreciated reforms introduced that are aimed at improvement of control of building supervision, while duration of construction approval procedures is still a major challenge to be worked on.

We are happy to note that altogether during the year, Latvia has risen three places.

Full information available at http://www.doingbusiness.org/Rankings

Happy and full of energy, we have returned from our first joint trip, this time it was Venice we visited. Our team has become even stronger and we are ready for new professional challenges.

On 12 July, an article of our colleagues, Jānis Loze, Līga Mence and Anna Kontere, was published in Lawyer Issue. The article covers recent changes in the competition regulatory framework in Latvia taking into account that as of 1 January 2016 the new law has come into force and it provides quite casuistic regulations for retailers of food products and for retailers of non-food products having significant effect in retail.

http://www.lawyerissue.com/recent-changes-in-the-competition-regulatory-framework-in-latvia/

We are happy to join the CanCham at this particular moment when Canada plays such a special role for Latvia.

Looking forward to mutually beneficial cooperation!

http://cancham.lv/

In accordance with the amendment made to the Law on Industrial Property Institutions and Procedures enacted as from 1 January 2016, Jānis Loze is included in the list of re-registered patent attorneys published on the website of the Patent Office at http://www.lrpv.gov.lv/en/representation-patent-office/list-re-registered-patent-attorneys

Our law firm gave legal advice to UPRENT, the leading pump and pumping system rental provider in Eastern Europe with branches in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland, in execution of an investment agreement with BaltCap, a major private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltic States.