Deals and cases

TGS Baltic advised Soldera, the creator of the renewable energy certificate of origin management platform

TGS Baltic advised the Estonian company Soldera and helped launch the first renewable energy certificate of origin management platform in Estonia.

TGS Baltic advised Paul-Tech in attracting an investment of 1.4 million from leading Estonian venture capital investors

TGS Baltic advised the client throughout the entire transaction, from the negotiation and preparation of Estonian transaction documents to the completion of the transaction. The investment round was led by the Estonian venture capital fund Superangel, in which SmartCap, Honey Badger Capital, Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN), Tatoli AS, Overkill VC and business angels from Sweden participated.

TGS Baltic advises the Museum Foundation of Imants Ziedonis on the intellectual property rights questions and ethical aspects of the use of an artificial intelligence computer program that synthesizes the imitation of the voice of the publicly known person – famous Latvian writer Imants Ziedonis

TGS Baltic advised the Estonian Museum Association on developing the Museum Card service

On 11 April 2023, the foundation Muuseumikaart began operating, providing culture enthusiasts with a simpler way to visit various museums located in Estonia. Purchasers of the innovative Museum Card can visit over 100 museums and 500 exhibitions an unlimited number of times within a year.

We advised Estonian-based international software company Timetrix

Senior associates Mari-Liis Orav and Kärt Raud advised Estonian-based international software company Timetrix on drafting their licensing and related IT-services agreements.

We advised Nasdaq-listed fintech company Opera on the acquisition of Pocosys

TGS Baltic advised the Opera group, which is listed on stock exchange Nasdaq in the USA, on entry into a contract of purchase for the acquisition of fintech company Pocosys and its sister company, a licensed payment institution, Pocopay from Poco Holding where Indrek Neivelt has a large shareholding.

TGS Baltic continuously and extensively assists TV Play Baltics in interactions with regulators

TGS Baltic team is continuously and extensively assisting AS TV Play Baltics (the biggest satellite TV service provider in the Baltic States) in interactions with regulatory authorities (mostly the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission). The matters include discussions with the authorities on the nature of cross-border satellite TV services and regulation based on the EU legal framework.

TGS Baltic assists Bitė Lietuva

TGS Baltic assists Bitė Lietuva in a dispute initiated by a virtual mobile network operator regarding allegedly incorrect application of the EU roaming legislation and calculation of roaming tariffs. The claimant alleges that it overpaid the roaming charges in the amount of approx. EUR 0.4 million.

TGS Baltic represents Lithuanian Radio and Television – the country's only national public broadcaster

TGS Baltic is representing the national TV broadcaster in a legal dispute with a software development company for creation and development of the content management system for Video on Demand services that the national broadcaster is providing for free to all its viewers. 

TGS Baltic advised LRT (National Broadcaster of Lithuania)

TGS Baltic advised LRT, a national broadcaster on acquisition of new content management system and software for its webpage and media archive, that now is accessible via the internet and other all content broadcasted by two channels LRT and LRT KULTURA as well as other original content. The matter related to the consultations of structuring of the transaction, IP acquisition matters, publishing matters in the internet and other.

Conselled Wix.com

Counseled Wix.com, one of the largest web portal development platforms in the world, in implementing the employee stock option and share-linked instrument plan in Lithuania. Continuously advises on all day-to-day employment, migration, contracting issues.

TGS Baltic assisted Modern Times Group (MTG) in launching innovative and modern video-on-demand service Viaplay

TGS Baltic assisted MTG in launching innovative and modern video-on-demand service Viaplay. The launch was simultaneous in all the three Baltic States, a lot of coordination and team work was required in order to successfully meet the launch date and address all regulatory issues. It was the first of such type, subscription-based service in Lithuania, therefore a lot of issues had to be handled with regulatory authorities.

Sweden's Skandia to open Thule operations centre in Lithuania

TGS Baltic has advised Skandia, one of the largest Sweden's banking and insurance groups, on the establishing a new operations centre in Vilnius.

Advising Estover in trademark dispute with E-Piim

The intellectual property team of the firm, led by attorney-at-law Ants Mailend, represented Estover in a dispute with E-Piim in connection with the latter’s use of the trademark of its ‘Russian cheese’.

Evaluation of the litigation process in Latvia and increase of efficiency thereof within the framework of the Latvian and Switzerland co-operation project “Modernisation of courts in Latvia”

TGS Baltic advised the Court Administration of the Republic of Latvia in the project “Evaluation of litigation process in Latvia and increase of efficiency thereof within the framework of the Latvian and Switzerland co-operation project “Modernisation of courts in Latvia”” carried out from 9 July 2012 to 9 April 2013 that included international co-operation and sharing of experience.

Chambers Europe 2013 top ranks the firm and its 18 “Leading Lawyers”

Chambers Europe, a major European legal directory, gave TGS Baltic the highest rankings in corporate/commercial, employment, competition/antitrust and energy practices in its 2013 edition.

Chambers Global 2013 ranks TGS Baltic among leading law firms

Law firm TGS Baltic and its lawyers are ranked in top tiers in Chambers Global’s newest, 2013 edition. The edition analyzes corporate/commercial and dispute resolution practice areas in the Baltics.

R&D Project with IBM

TGS Baltic advised the Lithuanian Research Centre, controlled by the Ministry of Economy, on a joint project with IBM Research in commercialising and protecting jointly developed intellectual products. The firm advised the Ministry of Economy and the client on various contractual, public procurement and EU funding matters as well as issues related to R&D.

ANIMAL Brand Litigation

TGS Baltic successfully defended Universal Nutrition, amanufacturer of nutrition supplements, in the cancellation of a competing trademark that showed too much similarity with the client’s brand.