Competition Law: A company can be fined for the conduct of the consultant, who prepares the tender documentation
Court of Justice of the European Union just recently concluded, that it is possible to establish a violation of the competition law not only because of the company’s own acts, but also the ones of the consultant contracted for the preparation of the tender documents.
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VILGERTS successfully defended SIA "Scania Latvia" in proceedings before the Procurement Monitoring Bureau against the appeals lodged by SIA "Avar Auto" and SIA "Eco bus" concerning the decision of an open tender (tendered by Daugavpils city municipality, “Supply of environmentally friendly buses for the needs of AS "Daugavpils satiksme" (SAM 4.5.1.2.”, id. Nr. 2022/93). As a result, the contracting authority was permitted to conclude the contract with SIA “Scania Latvia”, as the winning tenderer.
January 18, 2023
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.
November 9, 2022
Legal support (together with Storm Legal) to Prime Prometics SIA, cosmetics e-shop business, and its shareholder KE Ventures SIA in connection with investment by Draugiem Capital I SIA to intensify international expansion.
October 10, 2022
Advised Summus Capital OÜ, a leading Baltic real estate investment holding group, on the completion of its buy-out of Mirrow Institute OÜ from LSREF3 Riga Plaza SIA, one of the largest shopping malls in Riga with NLA more than 50,000 m2 .
July 30, 2022