Ellex‘s real estate team engages with a wide range of matters; transactions, developments and construction, lease and management issues, territory planning and zoning, environmental issues, and real estate litigation. The firm operates in various industries, such as agriculture, retail, forestry, insurance, logistics, and energy. Ivars Pommers has a wealth of experience in all aspects of real estate, construction, and environmental law, with recent involvement in restructuring and real estate transactions with a special focus on tax-structuring aspects. He heads the practice with key support from the talented Ilga Gudrenika-Krebs, who regularly assists clients with transactional and developmental real estate issues in a range of industries.
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Key clients
- Blackstone
- IKEA Latvian franchise holder SIA Paul Mason Properties/SIA Verus Praedium
- Eastnine
- VIG Fund
- Swedbank AS
- Luminor
- Bonava
- YIT
- Orkla
- Kesko
Work highlights
- Advising Lords LB on the development of the largest multifunctional office/retail/hotel development Preses Nama Kvartāls in Riga.
- Advising “Merito Sustainable Energy FUND I”, founded by the investment company Merito Partners and its partner, in the development of several solar energy parks in Latvia.
- Advising agricultural Services Cooperative Society LATRAPS on the development of ASNS Ingredient pea protein isolate plant in Jelgava.
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Practice head
Ivars Pommers
Other key lawyers
Ilga Gudrenika-Krebs