Background

Excellent education and experience of more than 15 years with financial institutions and companies operating in the financial and investment sectors ensure a broad outlook on various issues of the civil law and corporate law – in both entering into transactions and ensuring implementation thereof, including representation in judicial and insolvency proceedings.

Education

Riga Stradiņš University

Doctor’s degree in law specializing in the civil law subsection of the legal science, 2017

University of Latvia, Faculty of Law

Master’s degree in law, 2010

University of Latvia, Faculty of Law

Lawyer’s qualification, 2005

University of Latvia, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, 2002

Key Experience

JSC “Reverta”, Head of the Management Legal Support and Restructuring Division, 2011-2017
  • Provision of legal support to the company’s management and employees
  • Complicated international and local judicial proceedings
  • Legal execution of elaborate credit restructuring transactions and resolution of complicated issues in real estate matters
  • Representation of the company’s interests before the Association of Latvian Commercial Banks, as well as involvement in various legislative working groups
“Swedbank” JSC, Senior Legal Counsel of the Loan Recovery Department, 2009–2011
  • Recovery and restructuring of loans issued to business entities
  • Representation of a bank in complicated judicial and insolvency proceedings

Accomplishments

  • Successful outcome in judicial proceedings against the Public Utilities Commission and JSC “Latvijas Gāze” regarding the illegitimate practice to claim debts of natural gas consumed incurred by previous owners of real estate from the new owners of such real estate (for more detail please see judgment of the Supreme Court in case No SKA-676/2013).
  • Development of a solution for problems with third-party collaterals in insolvency proceedings, which is partially included in the amendments to the Insolvency Act dated 25 September 2014.

  • Impeccable legal execution of major transactions with real estate worth many millions of euros.

  • Successful outcome in several judicial proceedings where claims constituted considerable amounts.

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