Euro Elite 2024: Baltics – Baltic conditions

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Euro Elite 2024: Baltics – Baltic conditions

Throughout the pan-Baltic region in 2023 there was an overriding sense of instability in the legal market. Although there have been projections of GDP growth in 2024, the legal markets across the region continue to grapple with several economic challenges, including the unpredictable cost of energy.

In Estonia, these challenges also include a rise in public debt, a rise in the country’s deficit, a swift reduction in investment, and low government debt. These factors all combined to produce a fall in trade with its main international partners. While 2024 looks brighter in terms of economic growth, this instability is a worry for firms. Investment arbitrations remain low and there has been a lack of large bankruptcies or restructuring matters in recent months. Continue reading “Euro Elite 2024: Baltics – Baltic conditions”

Euro Elite 2023: Baltics – Covering all bases

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Euro Elite 2023: Baltics – Covering all bases

‘The future is Pan-Baltic!’ says Vilius Bernatonis, managing partner of TGS Baltic’s Lithuania branch. He is referring to the integration goals of Baltic states’ major firms, which aim to ensure that legal expertise from a firm’s office in one Baltic nation will be readily available to its client in another. But his words have a broader resonance. Though distinct, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania co-operate at nearly every economic level, investing in the infrastructure, energy and technology of one another to foster shared growth and development. They do so because in numbers there is strength. In numbers, there is safety.

Looking at the structure of the Baltic legal market in general terms, at the top is the pan-Baltic bracket comprising Ellex, TGS Baltic, Cobalt and Sorainen, all of which offer full-service, cross-border practices covering all areas of law in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. According to Liga Merwin, managing partner at Ellex [Latvia], ‘the pan-Baltic firms remain largely unchallenged’. Continue reading “Euro Elite 2023: Baltics – Covering all bases”