Toms Šulmanis

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Toms
Šulmanis

Partner / Latvia

toms.sulmanis@cobalt.legal

+371 2911 0761

+371 6720 1800

about

Toms Šulmanis heads the Employment & Immigration practice group in COBALT Latvia. Toms has 20 years of experience in the fields of M&A, Corporate/Commercial, Real Estate and Employment, including representation of clients in acquisition and sale of trade centers, commercial and residential developments, advice on all aspects of construction process, drafting and negotiating of commercial leases. Toms has also represented clients in complex corporate and employment matters, like restructuring of operations, redundancies, dealing with trade unions.

practice

recognition

Employment - Band 1, Chambers Europe 2023
Employment - Next generation partner, Legal 500 2023
Corporate/Commercial - Band 4, Chambers Global and Europe 2023
M&A - Highly regarded, IFLR 1000 2022

Languages

Latvian, English, Russian

Membership & education

Latvian Bar Association (since 2007)
LL.M., University of Latvia, Faculty of Law (2005)
LL.B., University of Latvia, Faculty of Law (2003)

Publications

experience

2020 — 07 — 16

Legal assistance to an owner of fuel retail network in Latvia regarding environmental liability issues

2020 — 06 — 09

COBALT is an exclusive Latvian partner of Fragomen LLP

2020 — 02 — 13

COBALT advised SEB life insurance undertakings on cross-border merger in the Baltics

2019 — 12 — 18

COBALT advised Workday, Inc. on the acquisition of Scout RFP

2019 — 05 — 08

COBALT advised Roche Latvia on reconstruction of Roche historic headquarters in Riga

2019 — 03 — 19

AKROPOLE multifunctional shopping and entertainment center commissioned

2019 — 01 — 10

COBALT advised Corum Origin in the acquisition of ELKO Group headquarters office

2018 — 10 — 30

COBALT advised Astor Group in the acquisition of Radisson Blu Daugava hotel

2018 — 10 — 19

COBALT advises BaltCap Infrastructure Fund in acquisition of biomass CHP in the Riga region

2018 — 09 — 26

COBALT advised the sale of A-Katsastus Group’s business operations

2018 — 08 — 07

COBALT advises AVS Verkehrssicherung GmbH on the Acquisition of KMK Projekts

2017 — 11 — 24

COBALT advised HUGO BOSS on expanding its business operations in Latvia and Estonia

2017 — 10 — 13

COBALT advised DNB on the creation of Luminor – largest ever transaction in the Baltic banking market

2017 — 08 — 21

COBALT secures annulment of prohibition to dismiss a trade union member

2017 — 08 — 04

COBALT advises AS Storent Investments on the acquisition of Cramo operations in Latvia and Kaliningrad

2017 — 06 — 20

COBALT advises AFI Europe Latvia on large-scale residential development project in Riga

2017 — 01 — 02

COBALT provides general legal assistance to Snap Inc.

2016 — 10 — 31

COBALT advised Gjensidige on the completion of the merger of Baltic companies

2016 — 08 — 25

COBALT advises DNB upon combining its operations with Nordea in the Baltics

2016 — 04 — 08

COBALT advises AMIC Energy Management GmbH in the acquisition in the Latvian entity of SIA LUKoil Baltija R

2016 — 04 — 05

COBALT secures positive decision in unfair dismissal case

2016 — 03 — 16

COBALT advised AKROPOLIS GROUP in development of trade centre in Latvia

2015 — 12 — 28

COBALT advises Mid Europa Partners on its sale of Bite

2015 — 11 — 19

COBALT advised Talfin Amsterdam Holding B.V. in the sale of office building

2015 — 11 — 18

COBALT advises BaltCap in acquiring Baltic operations of financial automation company OpusCapita

2015 — 09 — 07

COBALT advises ELKO Group in acquisition of DL Distributors OÜ

2015 — 05 — 20

COBALT achieves positive decision in unfair dismissal case

2015 — 02 — 20

COBALT advises SIA Acme Corporation in sale of its subsidiaries to Hili Properties B.V.

2014 — 11 — 26

COBALT advises Solvina in SIA Storent Holding share sale transaction

2014 — 11 — 21

COBALT in cooperation with Linklaters advises Latvian Privatization Agency in the sale of Citadele Bank to international investors

2014 — 05 — 06

COBALT advises Polyplastic Group in acquisition of a polymer pipe production company SIA Evopipes

2013 — 06 — 04

BaltCap invests in the largest privately-owned postal operator in Latvia - Post Service Group

2013 — 02 — 27

Bite group companies refinance

2011 — 05 — 18

Advising Amserv Group in the acquisition of Adam Auto SIA

Toms Šulmanis is a well-recognized name, assisting with a variety of employment matters. He advises on transfers in company reorganizations as well as representing clients in disputes. He also advises on compliance involving immigration and handles employment contracts.

CHAMBERS EUROPE 2022, EMPLOYMENT

Toms Šulmanis is praised by clients for his ‘communication skills and speed.’ He is highly experienced in handling employment terminations, immigration and transfer of undertakings. He is also well regarded for his corporate and commercial activity.

CHAMBERS EUROPE 2019, EMPLOYMENT