Glimstedt has advised the Apollo Group on its acquisition of a network of KFC restaurants operating in Lithuania and Latvia from the Cibus Group. Cobalt and Addlaw reportedly advised the sellers.

TGS Baltic has advised Sweden's LMT Group AB on the acquisition of PLM Group companies in Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. The LMT Group was also advised by Sweden's Wesslau Soderqvist Advokatbyra and Finland's Hasto & Co.

Cobalt has advised London-based Vink Group, Europe’s largest semi-finished plastics distributor, on its acquisition of three Baltic companies, OU Proplastik, SIA Proplastik, and UAB Proplastik. TGS Baltic advised the Proplastik shareholders on the transaction. Financial details were not disclosed.

Primus Derling has successfully helped Skoda Vagonka, the manufacturer of electric passenger trains, draft an application to challenge the decision of Latvia's Pasazieru Vilciens public transport service provider relating to its decision to award a tender to deliver passenger trains and related equipment to another bidder.

TGS Baltic assisted Poland's MCI.PrivateVentures Fundusz Inwestycyjny Zamknięty and sub-fund MCI.TechVentures 1.0 obtain the permission of the Latvian Competition Council for its acquisition of sole control over Morele.net.Sp. z.o.o.

Primus Derling has assisted ALD Automotive, SIA with the development of a new consumer car rental product.

Sorainen Latvia is providing legal assistance to the courthouse agency Tiesu Namu Agentura throughout an open competition for the design, construction, and supervision of a new prison complex in Liepaja, a city in western Latvia.

Cobalt Latvia's Corporate practice group has assisted AS Eves Agro on its "inclusion" of SIA Palsa under a special Latvian process.

Sorainen has assisted the Bridgestone producer of tires and other rubber products on the implementation of the GDPR in its group company in Latvia and its branch in Lithuania.

Primus Derling has advised the Lumi Retail Property Fund on its acquisition of the shares of SIA Anninmuizas Iela, owner of the Anninmuizasa retail shopping center in Riga, from Latvian investment fund Hipo Latvijas Nekustama Ipasuma Fonds I, which was advised by Ellex Klavins.

TGS Baltic has advised Expobank CZ a.s.on the financing of the acquisition by Astor Group Latvia of the shares of SIA Polar Bek Daugava, owner of the Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel, from PBR Hotel.

Cobalt has advised Corum Origin on the acquisition and leaseback transaction of the ELKO Group headquarters office and warehouse in Riga for EUR 14.6 million. Ellex Klavins advised ELKO Group on the sale.

Ellex Raidla has advised Ichiban OU on the sale of Auto Forte Tallinn OU, the retailer of Peugeot and Hyundai in Tallinn, to United Motors AS. Grant Thornton Baltic advised United Motors on the deal.

A joint team from Sorainen and Hogan Lovells is advising RB Rail on drafting the underlying international treaties, infrastructure management agreements, and revisions to national laws that are needed for management of the Rail Baltica cross-border railway infrastructure.

TGS Baltic has assisted AS Augstsprieguma Tikls obtain merger clearance by the Latvian Competition Council for its potential acquisition of a decisive influence over AS Conexus Baltic Grid.

The Riga office of TGS Baltic has assisted Finland's Nordea Bank Abp register a change of the pledgee in a commercial pledge provided by OneMed from Sweden's Nordea Bank AB to Nordea Bank Abp as the result of the Nordea Group's relocation of its head office from Sweden to Finland in the form of a cross-border merger of the bank into its wholly-owned Finnish subsidiary.

Ieva Andersone, already the Head of Sorainen's Commercial & Regulatory Practice in Latvia, has joined the firm's partnership.

Sorainen has advised Hili Properties on its acquisition of SIA Tirdzniecibas Centrs “Dole” from AMD Holding. The target company is the owner and operator of the Dole shopping center in Riga, which has a total leasable area of 8,000 square meters.