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Litigation

Overview

A judgment is worth what can be collected on it. Enforcement decides more commercial disputes than the hearing does.

We act in commercial disputes before Latvian courts and arbitral tribunals: contractual and shareholder disputes, debt recovery and insolvency proceedings, and appeals against the decisions of regulators and other authorities.

We work from the pre-action position forward - what is worth securing before proceedings begin, which forum the contract actually points to, and how a judgment or award will be enforced once it exists, in Latvia or elsewhere.

What we advise on

Disputes arising from supply, services, distribution and construction contracts, from the pre-action correspondence through the hearing, including the question of which forum the contract points to.

Disputes between shareholders and between a company and its officers: challenges to decisions, deadlock, exclusion and valuation, and claims against board members.

Recovering sums owed, from demand through judgment to execution, and acting for creditors and debtors in insolvency and legal protection proceedings.

Challenging decisions of regulators and other authorities, through the internal objection stage and on to the administrative courts, including the question of what can be suspended in the meantime.

Securing a claim before and during proceedings, and enforcing a judgment afterwards against assets in Latvia, including the steps that have to be taken in the right order to keep an asset available.

Arbitration clauses and the proceedings that follow from them, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments and awards across borders, including the steps taken in the country where the assets are.

Cross-border enforcement

  1. Judgment

    Any decision of a Member State court, whatever it is called - a decree, order, decision or writ of execution - including a determination of costs by a court officer.

  2. Enforcement in another Member State

    A judgment that is enforceable in the Member State where it was given is enforceable in the other Member States without any declaration of enforceability being required.

  3. Arbitration

    Arbitration sits outside that Regulation altogether, so an arbitral award travels under a different framework from a court judgment.

Discuss your dispute with our team.

Tell us what has happened and we will set out the options and what each one costs in time.

Contact the team