Eversheds Sutherland Bitans

Banking, Finance and Capital Markets | Corporate, Commercial and M&A

Senior Partner, Head of Banking, Finance and Capital Markets

Māris is a Senior Partner heading the Banking and Finance practice group at Eversheds Sutherland Bitāns.

Capital Markets expert with more than 20 years of legal experience in banking and finance, commercial and company law, IT law and EU law.

Māris is especially well-known for his M&A work. During his many years of legal experience, he has been involved in the majority of the largest and most complex M&A projects in the country.  He has acted in an advisory capacity in over 250 M&A sector deals and advised sellers and buyers, both foreign and domestic, not only on mergers and acquisitions but also on complex reorganizations, restructurings and asset deals.

Māris also has extensive experience in commercial and company law matters.  He has led teams in over 70 major corporate and commercial sector deals.

He is also involved in several Latvian government-formed working groups on legislative initiatives.

Latvian, English and Russian

Member of the Latvian Bar Association

Head of the Investment protection and Court efficiency workgroup at the Foreign Investors’ Council in Latvia (FICIL)

Member of the Advisory Council of the Latvian Company Register

Member of the Workgroup of the Ministry of Justice of Latvia for drafting amendments to the Commercial law

Co-author of the Latvian Corporate Governance Code 2021 and 2025 together with the Riga Stock Exchange and Ministry of Justice of Latvia, Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC), and industry peers

Member of the Advisory Board for Riga City  Municipality companies governance

LL.M. degree from the University of Latvia, Ph.D. candidate since 2003.

International Practice Diploma in International Mergers and Acquisitions, 2004

Summer School for International Financial Law in Oxford, UK, 2014