Toms supports the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group as well as EU & Competition and M&A practice groups.

He has an extensive knowledge of International and European Law, particularly Private International Law and International Commercial and Investment Arbitration.

Toms holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Copenhagen. His research focused on the dichotomy between arbitration and human rights, in particular the interplay between setting-aside proceedings and parties’ procedural human rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.

• Arbitration & Mediation
• Litigation
• Private Equity
• Public Administrative & Constitutional Law
• White Collar
• EU Law

• Ph.D. University of Copenhagen (2019)
• International Academy for Arbitration Law (scholarship recipient), Paris, France (2017)
• The Hague Academy of International Law: Private International Law Summer Course (2015)
• LL.M (cum laude) in International and Comparative Private Law, University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, Groningen, the Netherlands (2014)
• LL.B in European and International Law, Maastricht University, European Law School, Faculty of Law, Maastricht, the Netherlands (2013)

• Absence of the set-aside action under Latvian law: a comparative and historical perspective
• Clifford Chance Unilateral Option Clauses Survey 2021
• Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the EU Member States
• Arbitration in Latvia: A Cautionary Tale?

• 2021 — 07 — 20
  COBALT successfully represented a client before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union
• 2021 — 01 — 15
  COBALT represents the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia before Constitutional Court regarding administrative-territorial reform
• 2020 — 12 — 18
  COBALT successfully represents Betsafe Latvia in the Constitutional Court
• 2020 — 10 — 01
  COBALT represents hydroelectric power plants in the Constitutional Court
• 2020 — 07 — 29
  COBALT advises airBaltic on EUR 250 million investment in the company’s share capital by the Latvian government
• 2020 — 07 — 10
  COBALT provides legal assistance to the foundation APEIRONS in preparing an opinion for the Constitutional Court
• 2020 — 02 — 24
  COBALT successfully represents AS PNB Banka in the Constitutional Court
• 2019 — 09 — 30
  COBALT advised Luminor, Nordea and DNB on closing transaction with Blackstone
• 2018 — 09 — 13
  COBALT advised Luminor on EUR 1 billion majority stake acquisition by Blackstone