Name
Gints Vilgerts

Managing Partner

Languages

English, Latvian

Location

Latvia

Primary practices:

M&A, Litigation & Arbitration

Secondary practices:

Corporate, Insurance, Real Estate & Construction, Shipping & Transport

Contacts

+371 29 107 768

gints@vilgerts.com

Contacts

+371 29 107 768

gints@vilgerts.com

Primary practices:

M&A, Litigation & Arbitration

Secondary practices:

Corporate, Insurance, Real Estate & Construction, Shipping & Transport

Profile

Gints Vilgerts, LL.M. is the founder and managing partner of the firm since 2008.  His practice focuses on all aspects of M&A, corporate restructuring, real estate and complex commercial dispute cases.

During his practice in Latvia and abroad (Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia), since 2010, he has participated in more than 100 transactions of total deal-size in excess of EUR 2 billion for clients from more than 10 jurisdictions.

Gints Vilgerts has been a guest lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, the Riga Graduate School of Law and the Riga Business School.

Gints Vilgerts is a "Chambers & Partners Europe" and "Legal 500" recommended practitioner in Latvia in the areas of M&A, corporate, real estate, construction and finance.

Chambers and Partners Europe 2014: "He puts everything into a business perspective and has brilliant ideas for how to solve our problems. He comes up with amazing solutions."

Legal 500 2012: “Excellent negotiation skills.” “Vilgerts has always been impressive, and his work remains equally so, chiefly due to the level of service and quality of output.”

Gints is included in The Best Lawyers in Latvia 2016 in following practice areas - Banking and Finance law, Corporate and M&A law, Litigation, Real Estate law.

Career

2008 / Partner, VILGERTS
1997 – 2006 / Partner, Sorainen

Education

1996 / University of Wales, LL.M. in Legal Aspects of Marine Affairs
1995 / University of Latvia, Bac.iur.

Membership

2011 – 2015 / MRICS
2003 / Latvian Bar Association
2021 / IBA

Experience

Advising East Capital Real Estate Fund IV on the various legal aspects of its EUR 83,000,000 (approximate) acquisition of 100% of the shares in Deglava Real Estate SIA (a subsidiary of ICA Gruppen (Sweden)), which owns a modern 94,000 square meters logistical and office center in Riga.  The transaction is one of the largest and most significant real estate transactions to occur in Latvia during 2023.

VILGERTS team advised AS DelfinGroup on the conditions of the unsecured bond issue prospectus in the amount of EUR 15 million. The prospectus for the issue of unsecured bonds includes both the opportunity for new investors to purchase the new unsecured bonds from 4 August 2023, as well as the opportunity for existing investors of certain categories of bonds to exchange existing bonds for new ones.

VILGERTS’ advises East Capital Real Estate on its EUR 53 million acquisition of the iconic “Place 11” office building in Riga (GLA 16,000 sqm) from the Hanner Group. According to Colliers, this is the largest commercial property transaction to have occurred in Latvia during 2022.  

Acting as the collateral agent in Latvia for the secured bond issuance by Marijas 2 SIA with total secured amount of EUR 45 million for the purposes of the project development of the business centre, Novira Plaza.

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