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Ex-Magnusson Team Opens New Firm in Baltics

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The teams associated with Magnusson in Latvia and Belarus before separating from the firm in controversial circumstances this past summer have announced that they are once again doing business as Vilgerts — the name they operated under before the 2012 tie-up with Magnusson. Simultaneously, Vilgerts announced that it has opened offices in Estonia and Lithuania "to ensure consistently high quality of our services to clients throughout the region.”

Vilgerts Managing Partner Gints Vilgerts has previous experience leading the Latvian operations of both Sorainen and Varul. He put out a shingle under his own name in 2008, and his firm opened an office in Minsk in 2011, before tying up with Magnusson in October, 2012. Although only together for 18 months before a messy separation from Magnusson this past AugustVilgerts claims to have been the highest ranked office in Legal500 in the Magnusson network. 

According to Managing Partner Gints Vilgerts: “We have so much adrenaline today after what we learned at Magnusson. We think that we really did the right thing. Now we are in search of partners in Lithuania and Estonia and getting reconnected to the rest of business law community in Europe. Our practice focus remains very conservative. We wish to grow via micro-mergers and to become the top firm in M&A, Competition, IPR, Tax and Litigation. Our clients support this change and they encourage us.”