Full Service Business Law Firm with offices in Latvia (Riga)

Carrington, Hall & Hamburg

Main Office

Doma laukums 1a
Riga LV 1050
Latvia

+371 67226566

+371 67226564

www.carrington.lv

Contact Sergei Semak, Partner

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Carrington, Hall & Hamburg is one of the leading law firms in Latvia (located in Riga). We offer highly qualified advice in every area of commercial law and that we occupy an outstanding position in the Latvian legal landscape.

All our lawyers are authorized to represent clients in the courts throughout Latvia.

Our main focus areas are: M&A, Corporate Law, Takeover Law, Corporate Restructurings, Privatizations, Tax Law, Banking and Capital Markets, Syndicated Loans, IPO’s, Structured Financing, Cross-Border Leasing, Project Finance, Investment Funds, Latvian and International Commercial Litigation, major Arbitrations, Class Actions, Telecommunications, Anti-trust, Public Procurement, Unfair Competition, IT Law, Trademarks, Patent, Copyright.

Carrington, Hall & Hamburg advises and represents Latvian and international corporate enterprises and individual entrepreneurs from all diverse business sectors, on all key aspects of business law. We offer our clients expert legal advice, support them in business negotiations, represent them in court, and protect their interests in administrative proceedings. Our strength is our commitment to find and implement solutions for the complex legal issues facing corporations and entrepreneurs. We repay the continued confidence placed by our clients in Carrington, Hall & Hamburg through our commitment to the highest professional standards.

The firm's strategy: The handling of most sensitive assignments with often extremely complex legal issues at the highest level and the development of tailor-made solutions by a high qualified team of lawyers. With this policy Carrington, Hall & Hamburg has become one of the most successful law firms in Latvia during the last years and consolidated its position within an international context.

Year this Office was Established: 2001

Languages: English, Russian, German, Latvian

Practice Areas

Practice Areas Description

Carrington, Hall & Hamburg provides legal representation and services in the following areas of practice:

- Banking and Finance

We act for a range of clients, including clearing banks, asset and commercial financiers, invoice discounters, non bank lenders and corporate borrowers. We have a broad range of experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting debt financing transactions involving a wide range of industries such as health care, regulated utilities, unregulated energy companies, insurance and pharmaceuticals. This experience is combined with our expertise in other practice areas, including corporate recovery and insolvency, intellectual property & IT, environment & planning, real estate and tax to address our clients needs.

- Real Estate

We can be called upon to advise at all stages of your transaction, not only after the transaction has been completed and a dispute has arisen, but even before the transaction completes, to minimize the possibility of future problems. In this way we help to ensure that you are advised of any risks associated with your transaction and protected as far as possible from future disputes with your tenant, purchaser, lender or whoever you are dealing with.

- Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Carrington, Hall & Hamburg provides a comprehensive range of litigation services to a wide range of well-established clients in industry and the professional sector in addition to insurers, government agencies and local authorities. Our approach to commercial disputes is to enable both parties to resolve their differences at the earliest opportunity and consequently restrict costs. Beyond the specific issue, there is often a wider commercial relationship to consider. Carrington, Hall & Hamburg strategy is to seek a solution that not only satisfies both parties but also maintains, wherever possible, the business relationship.

- Media and Telecoms

Information technology is now an integral part of many businesses. Whether it’s investing in hardware and software, or outsourcing IT-related functions, businesses are looking to achieve greater efficiencies and benefits from its IT and communications networks. In a world where communication and the movement of information electronically is more widespread and faster than ever before through e-mail, mobile telephony and the Internet, the law is moving at an equally rapid pace. We are well aware that in this sector, speed of response is paramount.

- Corporate Law

Our lawyers advise on issues affecting all aspects and stages of a company's development. Our clients include private and family businesses, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs. We act for fast growing and developing companies and smaller quoted companies. Our corporate finance work includes private company mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs supported by either private or venture funding, acting for investors on capital injections and corporate restructuring and in partnership with our private client department, business succession and inheritance tax mitigation. We advise companies, partnerships and public sector bodies on a variety of commercial issues, contract reviews and dispute resolution.

- Taxation

Taxation is an unwelcome cost for both individuals and businesses. Businesses and individuals need effective guidance to cope with the complex and ever-changing tangle of tax laws. We act for a wide range of corporate organizations, from sole traders to multinational conglomerates. We advise on the full range of tax issues facing the business client, from an initial choice of business medium through to the flotation of a successful company.

- Energy and Natural Resources

Since its foundation, Carrington, Hall & Hamburg has served the electricity, oil and gas industry. Our lawyers advise energy project developers, utilities, pipelines, oil and gas producers, marketers, investors, lenders and governmental entities on the development, financing, acquisition, construction and operation of all types of energy facilities, utility debt and equity financings, the privatization of state-owned energy concerns and on mergers and acquisitions involving energy sector participants.

- Transport

Carrington, Hall & Hamburg has strong links with the public and private transportation industries and extensive experience in handling their claims. The Eastern European transportation network is vast and diverse. It covers public transport in the form of the overland and underground railways, airlines, buses and coaches, as well as private transportation of people and goods on land, sea and air. Carrington, Hall & Hamburg is ideally placed to offer a complete solution for litigation in Eastern Europe region. Through experienced and motivated staff, we offer a service that can equally easily deal with individual claims, class actions or catastrophic accidents.

- Intellectual Property and IT

Intellectual property rights are embodied in a surprisingly wide variety of products and services – from obvious examples such as famous brand names, works of art, films, music and books, to scientific processes, computer programs, databases, industrial designs and even confidential information. Whilst some protection of these rights is granted by law without your needing to actively do anything, other protections need implementing – registration of trade marks, design rights, patents and domain names are some examples of what may need to be covered. Carrington, Hall & Hamburg brings you a respected, dynamic Intellectual Property practice, backed by the vast resources of one of the nation’s premier law firms.

Affiliations

The European Association of Attorneys (AEA)

Partners

Sergey Semak
Senior Partner
Transportation

Fluza Semaka
Chairman

Associates

	Mag. Sandija Bokmane Associate Business Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Discrimination, Sexual Harassment		Arthur Herzog Office Services Manager
	Maris Sodnaks Lawyer Construction Law		Janis Straubergs Lawyer Business and Industry

Lawyers

	Edvin Brencs Group Leader Property Law, Property Management		Mag. Edgars Dupats Lawyer Litigation
	Alexander J. Hay III Lawyer Banking and Finance, Estate Planning, Immigration, Tax Planning		Peteris Krievs Lawyer Business Law, Licensing Law, Real Estate, Tax
	Bruno Leja Lawyer Banking and Finance, Business and Industry, Real Estate		Mag. Lelde Leja Lawyer Banking and Finance, Debtor and Creditor, Employment, Real Estate, Tax
	Jelena Rutkovska Lawyer Burglary, Computer Crime, Credit Card Fraud, Criminal Defense, Fraud		Dr. Stephen L. Thompson Lawyer Banking Law, Business Formation, Business Law, Business Litigation, Corporate Finance

Representative Clients

European Commission
NATO Riga
State of Latvia
Government of Republic of Latvia
Ministry of Culture of Latvia
Riga City Council
Latvian State Roads
Elektromontaza
ASK Riga
Strencu MRS
Musu Maja
Paul Stradins Clinical Hospital
Riga Shipping Company
Lilita
Baltic Car Leasing (Sixts representative in Latvia)

DHL
Swedbank
Papyrus (Stora Enso representative in Latvia)
Pata AB
UPS
Statoil
Wrigley
Nordea
Libanons
Avon
Eltek
Exhibition company Prima (Skonto)
I & L Publishing (publisher of FHM and Cosmopolitan)
TNT
Adidas